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Canada’s Health Care ‘Refugees’

by  Jessica Peck Corry 10/01/2009Sometimes, patriotism can be awkward.  Especially when it means admitting to an international TV audience that your nation’s broken health care system forced you onto welfare, into adult diapers, and hobbling with a walker. And all before the age of 30.Embarrassing perhaps, but for Canadian Lin Gilbert, the time had come to share her story publicly this week.  Especially after her 15-year-old son was re