秋蒙問：美國中大彩卻無錢治病，報道真實嗎？

秋蒙轉來以下報道，並問：「這個報道真實嗎？」。將原報道英文附在下面，對比可以發現，關鍵有幾點「忽視」、篡改了：
    1）紐約的這個彩票分期付款是法定的，因為威恩·謝恩克的遭遇，有人推動要修改這個規定；
    2）威恩·謝恩克的癌症一直在醫院得到治療，只是他想找一家癌症特別專業醫院，該醫院收費高。美國的醫療體系有各種規定，很多保險公司、社會福利都有指定醫院處理常規病症。但突發事故受傷者、醫療緊急狀況的病患，保險、福利指定醫院的規定不再限制，醫院都是不計成本治療的。本文中文標題「無錢治病」是嚴重的捏造。美國病患（包括街頭流浪者）不會因為沒有錢不給治療。
    3）威恩·謝恩克病情惡化后，他得以轉到另外一家專業醫院診治，只收1500美元。該醫院診治結果是「癌症晚期」，沒有治療的可能。
   
    原文報道是針對彩票中獎卻無法享用，並非特指彩票會延續他的生命。中文報道卻成了「無錢治療」。中國這種捏造性的宣傳，只能起到鼓勵醫院不給錢就不治病的惡習。既然美國都「無錢治病」，中國衛生部也就沒必要命令醫院必須給沒有交費的病人進行治療了。
中百萬獎卻無錢治病 美「彩票富翁」病死
    來源： 揚子晚報　
   
    【星島網訊】美國紐約州51歲男子威恩·謝恩克2007年1月12日被診斷出患有肺癌後幾周，就買刮刮卡彩票中了100萬美元的大獎。對於大約需要40萬美元來治療癌症的謝恩克來說，這筆彩票大獎堪稱是救命「及時雨」。
   
    　　然而令他做夢也沒想到的是，根據彩票規則，這筆大獎他必須分20年才能領完，這意味著他2007年只能領取稅前獎金五萬美元，這筆錢壓根不夠看病。
     



    　　謝恩克的朋友四處奔走，希望能為謝恩克找到一家願意接收他的高級癌症醫院，並以彩票獎金作為回報，可是也沒有哪家癌症醫院願意接受這種彩票獎金「分期付款」的方式。
   
    　　知道自己的生命已經開始倒計時后，謝恩克決定和長期生活的女友瓊·迪克拉克結婚。2007年4月4日，他們在一個朋友的家中舉行了一個小型婚禮。
   
    　　徒有「百萬富翁」虛名的謝恩克4月23日終於死在了美國錫拉丘茲市一家普通老兵醫院裡。謝恩克生前已經立下遺願，表示要將他的所有彩票獎金都留給他的新婚妻子瓊·迪克拉克。
   
ABC的英文報道：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?"