{"id":25864,"date":"2023-11-25T11:53:47","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T16:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=25864"},"modified":"2023-11-25T11:54:52","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T16:54:52","slug":"episode-918-ted-and-shirley-snowbirds-return-to-canada-for-good-why-cost-of-health-care-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=25864","title":{"rendered":"EPISODE 918 TED AND SHIRLEY, SNOWBIRDS, RETURN TO CANADA FOR GOOD. WHY? COST OF HEALTH CARE IN TEXAS"},"content":{"rendered":"
EPISODE 918      DINNER WITH COUSIN TED FREEMAN AND HIS WIFE SHIRLEY NOV. 24, 2023<\/p>\n

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MARJORIE SKEOCH, TED AND SHIRLEY FREEMAN   NOV. 23, 2023<\/div>\n

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It has been a long time since  we have seen each other.   Shirley and Ted Freeman have moved<\/div>\n
back to Canada after 35 winter months at their ex=pat home in Texas.  <\/div>\n
They are back on the farm I remember so well.  Ted\u2019s mom and dad are so close to me that<\/div>\n
it is hard to write about them.  Their farm is the farm where we spent so much of our childhood<\/div>\n
years that it seemed like a pat of our own home.   It is very hard to write about people and <\/div>\n
places that are close\u2026tight\u2026personal.<\/div>\n

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Why did they return to Canada after so many winters inTexas.  Health care.  Simple.  The cost<\/div>\n
of extra health care for Snowbirds is around $10,000 per year.   That cost cannot be sustained. And it<\/div>\n
may not even be enough if a devastating illness or accident happens.   <\/div>\n

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Some Canadians experiencing a terrible operation prefer to hire an air ambulance to get<\/div>\n
back to Canada.<\/div>\n

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Ted and Shirley are not ill.   They are back home.   And maybe this will give me a chance<\/div>\n
to write about their farm.  Of all the farms in our family there are only  two where relatives still live.<\/div>\n
The Townsend farms and the Freeman farm.<\/div>\n

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my cousin Ted Freeman had aneardeth experience\u2026the thought of which he would rather not talk<\/div>\n

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EPISODE 918      DINNER WITH COUSIN TED FREEMAN AND HIS WIFE SHIRLEY NOV. 24, 2023 alan skeoch Nov. 23, 2023 MARJORIE SKEOCH, TED AND SHIRLEY FREEMAN   NOV. 23, 2023 It has been a long time since  we have seen each other.   Shirley and Ted Freeman have moved back to Canada after 35 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}