澳女嬰在加早產 醫療費達百萬美元大綱
真的成了“含着金湯匙”出生的孩子了……
Australia's foreign affairs minister is looking into the case of a Sydney couple stuck with a million dollar hospital bill after their daughter was born in Vancouver last August.
悉尼一位女性去年八月在加拿大溫哥華產女，但夫婦兩人卻因此被迫支付高達百萬美元的醫療費用。澳大利亞外交部長正着手調查此事。
John Kan and Rachel Evans had taken out travel insurance and extra coverage for Evans' pregnancy without realizing the policy would not cover the birth of the baby.
爲了埃文斯懷孕，約翰•坎和雷切爾•埃文斯已經取出旅遊保險和額外的保額，但沒料到政策並不覆蓋生育費用。
They were about to return to Australia after their B.C. vacation when Evans went into premature labour at the airport.
在加拿大不列顛哥倫比亞省旅遊結束回國時，埃文斯突然在機場早產。
Piper Kan stayed in the neo-natal ward of the B.C. Women's Hospital and Health Centre for three months and the bill ended up being about $1 million.
他們的女兒派帕•坎在該省婦幼醫院和健康中心的新生兒病房裏住了三個月，最終的醫療費用高達大約100萬美元。
Australian media reports the couple negotiated a payment plan with the hospital at about $300 a month, which would take 278 years to pay off.
據澳大利亞媒體報道，這對夫婦和醫院就一份支付計劃進行了協商，若按每月歸還大約300美元計算的話，需要278年才能付清。
Evans tells the Herald Sun newspaper they don't begrudge the bill because they have a healthy daughter.
埃文斯告訴《太陽先驅報》，他們不會因爲賬單感到怨恨，因爲他們的女兒健康地出生了。
"Financially, it's not so good but you can't put a price on it," she told the newspaper.
她告訴該報：“從經濟上說超級不划算，但順利產女無法用價錢衡量。”
It's unclear what support Australia's foreign ministry could offer, but the Herald says the country's Dept. of Health and Ageing will reportedly investigate whether it could pay the bill.
現在還不清楚澳大利亞外交部會提供什麼幫助，但《太陽先驅報》稱，據報道，醫療健康及老年關懷部門將對是否支付賬單進行調查。
Evans said she is grateful for any help the government might be able to provide.
埃文斯說，她對政府可能會提供的任何幫助都非常感激。
"We don't feel our mistake was someone else's responsibility but obviously it is quite a large amount so any assistance we can get would be helpful."
“我們不認爲我們的錯誤是其他人的責任，但很明顯賬單數額巨大，所以對我們的任何幫助都很有用。”
Australian residents can get treatments deemed medically necessary under reciprocal agreements with 11 countries, but Canada is not one of those countries.
根據澳大利亞與11個國家之間的互惠協議，該國居民在被認爲有必要接受治療時，都會得到救治，但加拿大不在這些國家之列，須自行負擔任何緊急醫療成本。
