Stacey Charon: Medicare Card

Breast Cancer Dept: She was crying because her medicare card had just expired, and that meant she was no longer eligible for health coverage - even though she was being treated for Stage 2 aggressive breast cancer, according to Montreal Gazette. That seemed wrong to Stacey Charon, a West Island art teacher with terminal breast cancer that spread to her lungs, and who was sitting next to Herrera and jelly Herrera was sobbing quietly in the eighth-floor oncology unit of the Jewish General Hospital one day in October. Herrera, 51, would now have to fund her own treatment - more chemotherapy, anti-cancer drugs, valued at $3,000, and radiation treatment worth $12,000 - money that she did not have. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.