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Man beats free health care system with bad check to fix bad heart.

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Determined not to die before the British free health care system could get around to fixing his bad heart, a 77 year-old man wrote a bed check to a private health care facility to get his bad heart fixed.

The man was told that he would possibly die while he was on the waiting list for Britain's National Health Service. He had been having severe heart pains and a specialist told him that he had to block heart valves. He risked fatal heart failure at any time. And he had a nine month wait before it would be his turn to be cared for by the National Health service.

Private surgery would cost him about 6500 Brtish Pounds Sterling.

So he went to private health facility where they told him he could have treatment within three days. And he wrote a check knowing that his heart surgery would be completed before the check bounced.

His heart surgery was a success and the hospital demanded payment. He finally negotiated a payment of 25 British Pounds Sterling per month. His bill will be paid when he is 99 years old.

He said "Life is a good thing and you fight for it. I would have robbed a bank to save my life."

Not only did he save his life, he has helped someone else on the British health-care system waiting list because they are now one list place closer to being served.

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