Whoa, this just ain't right! I thought Canada was the model for guvment healthcare? It sounds like you live in the US, where the bureacrats can cut the cost of healthcare, by driving you to an "early grave."<g> I hate the guvment, when they do this kind of stuff. Do y'all have a dummycrat party up there too?


>>(wisea** retort deleted)
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>>How is your wife doing?
>
>Thanks for asking.
>
>Helen fell a couple of months ago and has been moved
>to a nursing home. The only bed available was in the
>dimensia ward and she doesn't have dimensia. She'll
>be moved when a bed becomes available in an area where
>the patients are more lucid. She's pretty depressed by
>the situation but has no choice, because she can no
>longer walk, even with her walker.
>
>FYI - The monthly bill is $1400.75 a month. Canadian
>Medicare pays $751.26 and I have to come up with the
>rest. It has made me count the pennies, but it can be
>done if I'm careful with the budget. OY!!
>
>Here's a pension story for you. I applied for a service called
>involuntary separation to help me with the bills. But, because
>my income increased in 2007 all I was allotted was 93 cents
>a month by the government. About the increase . . .
>I save $200.00 a month to cover the municipal taxes I have
>to pay for living in this city. Each month I put the money in
>the money market. The interest I make on the money is about
>$5.00 a month, so that's $60.00 a year. That $60.00 is the
>wopping increase that was sited to cut my involuntary separation
>payment to help cover the bills. There is something wrong with
>the pensioner's rules in Ottawa (Canada's Capital city) and
>nobody cares.
>
>So here is first draft of the letter I wrote in reply to their payment.
>I hope is give you a chuckle.
>--------------------
>May 27, 2008 my wife was admitted to a nursing home.
>The cost per month is $1400.00 minus an Alberta Senior's Benefit
>payment of $751.26 leaving $643.74 outstanding.
>
>I recently was advised to apply for an increase in my pension
>through your "Involuntary Separation" feature as it would help
>with covering the outstanding amount each month.
>
>Having applied a month ago, today I called Service Canada and asked
>when the involuntary separation payment would be approved. To my
>delight, I was told that it had been approved and my monthy pension
>cheque would be increasing. "How much will the increase be", I asked.
>The Service Canada rep told me that my payment was $375.69 a month
>and it would be increasing to $376.62 immediately.
>
>I just want to take a moment say thank you for the 93 cent increase
>in my pension. Over the course of a year it will amount to a
>wopping $11.16 which will pay for a box of Tim Horton donuts
>for me and my wife, and we'll still have $4.91 left over to stick up your a*s.
>
>
>:)