WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government has paid a large chunk of a $118,00 US medical bill for a man’s emergency treatment in the United States. Robin Milne, who is 60, cried tears of joy after coming out of a meeting with Health Minister Kelvin Goertzen on Thursday. RelatedMilne — who lives a few kilometres from the Canada-U.S. border — had a heart attack in October 2016 and went to the closest hospital emergency room, which is in Minnesota. Manitoba has an emergency care deal with two hospitals in Minnesota, but the U.S. doctor sent Milne to another hospital in North Dakota, which the province doesn’t have a deal with, to get a heart stent. Milne said the decision to transfer him to the North Dakota hospital came after he waited 90 minutes to be transferred to a Winnipeg hospital for the procedure.

Source: National Post March 10, 2017 19:41 UTC