秋蒙问：美国中大彩却无钱治病，报道真实吗？
(博讯2007年4月28日 首发 - 支持此文作者/记者)
秋蒙转来以下报道，并问：“这个报道真实吗？”。博讯将原报道英文附在下面，对比可以发现，关键有几点“忽视”、篡改了：
1）纽约的这个彩票分期付款是法定的，因为威恩·谢恩克的遭遇，有人推动要修改这个规定；
2）威恩·谢恩克的癌症一直在医院得到治疗，只是他想找一家癌症特别专业医院，该医院收费高。美国的医疗体系有各种规定，很多保险公司、社会福利都有指定医院处理常规病症。但突发事故受伤者、医疗紧急状况的病患，保险、福利指定医院的规定不再限制，医院都是不计成本治疗的。本文中文标题“无钱治病”是严重的捏造。美国病患（包括街头流浪者）不会因为没有钱不给治疗。
3）威恩·谢恩克病情恶化后，他得以转到另外一家专业医院诊治，只收1500美元。该医院诊治结果是“癌症晚期”，没有治疗的可能。
原文报道是针对彩票中奖却无法享用，并非特指彩票会延续他的生命。中文报道却成了“无钱治疗”。中国这种捏造性的宣传，只能起到鼓励医院不给钱就不治病的恶习。既然美国都“无钱治病”，中国卫生部也就没必要命令医院必须给没有交费的病人进行治疗了。
中百万奖却无钱治病 美“彩票富翁”病死
来源： 扬子晚报
【星岛网讯】美国纽约州51岁男子威恩·谢恩克2007年1月12日被诊断出患有肺癌后几周，就买刮刮卡彩票中了100万美元的大奖。对于大约需要40万美元来治疗癌症的谢恩克来说，这笔彩票大奖堪称是救命“及时雨”。
然而令他做梦也没想到的是，根据彩票规则，这笔大奖他必须分20年才能领完，这意味着他2007年只能领取税前奖金五万美元，这笔钱压根不够看病。
谢恩克的朋友四处奔走，希望能为谢恩克找到一家愿意接收他的高级癌症医院，并以彩票奖金作为回报，可是也没有哪家癌症医院愿意接受这种彩票奖金“分期付款”的方式。
知道自己的生命已经开始倒计时后，谢恩克决定和长期生活的女友琼·迪克拉克结婚。2007年4月4日，他们在一个朋友的家中举行了一个小型婚礼。
徒有“百万富翁”虚名的谢恩克4月23日终于死在了美国锡拉丘兹市一家普通老兵医院里。谢恩克生前已经立下遗愿，表示要将他的所有彩票奖金都留给他的新婚妻子琼·迪克拉克。
ABC的英文报道：Lottery Winner With Cancer Runs Out of Time
April 25, 2007 — Although it took enormous luck to win $1 million in the New York State lottery, in the end Wayne Schenk ran out of time.
The 51-year-old veteran who tried in vain to get his $1 million in lottery winnings paid out in a lump sum so that he could pay for costly treatments for his lung cancer, died Monday.
Last December, Schenk was diagnosed with cancer and was told he had less than a year to live. A few weeks later, he played a $5 scratch-off ticket and won the big prize. But New York State lottery officials would pay him only in 20 annual installments of $50,000, citing the rules of the game.
Despite the efforts of his friends, a local New York state assemblyman, and several media accounts that reported his plight, Schenk was unable to get a top cancer facility to accept him as a patient in return for the winnings.
Schenk, who served in the Army from 1976 to 1980, did not have health insurance but was receiving treatment from the Veteran Affairs Hospital in Syracuse. Since that facility had limited resources, he wanted to move to a specialized cancer center that would have required $125,000 upfront and $250,000 in reserve.
As his health declined in recent months, Schenk was able to get an appointment at Buffalo's Roswell Cancer Institute, which cost him $1,500. "But it was too late," said Assemblyman Joseph A. Errigo, who has been pushing a bill in the legislature to bend the lottery's rules. "They told him that it was incurable."
Knowing that his days were numbered and wanting to share his wealth, Schenk married his longtime girlfriend, Joan DeClerck, April 4. About 18 friends gathered at a friend's house to celebrate the nuptials as his bride teased him. "You finally did it!" During the ceremony, Schenk was in such a weak state that he was breathing through an oxygen tank.
In addition to his military service, Schenk owned a local tavern and worked odd jobs. Some of his favorite pastimes were hunting and fishing.
Longtime friend Nick Pascazi still remembers one particular hunting trip to Quebec in 1992 or 1993.
"He shot two caribou and I shot two," says Pascazi. "And we had to carry them back in the canoe with us. The water was rough and a storm was coming up. The water was coming up to the edge of the canoe. I thought we were going to capsize. But I saw another caribou and I just had to shoot it. I was getting ready to aim and Wayne went nuts. 'What are you crazy? How are we going to get that out of here?' We couldn't stop laughing and the boat kept rocking from side to side."
Pascazi will be a pallbearer at the memorial for Schenk Friday at St. Januarius church in Naples, N.Y.
"He wasn't ready to die, that's for sure," says Pascazi. "It was a terrible, terrible thing. You win a million dollars and you don't spend it. How's that?"
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