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I just read that Ontario has pledged to help kids who need medical procedures who have been banned by Trump, hopefully we'll get that set up quickly so this baby can be helped!

https://www.thestar.com/news/queenspark/2017/02/03/ontario-to-help-young-patients-affected-by-trump-travel-ban.html

That is so sad. Who generally pays for those types of surgeries?

So heart wrenching to see all the stories of those who had every right (& zero risk) to come into the US. The implementation of this restriction was SO far off, that regardless of the intention, this was a fail of epic (global) proportions. We look like a 3 ring circus at best.

@agold: It depends on each case. Some non citizens pay cash with a pre service negotiated rate (similar to how US citizens frequently do medical tourism in other countries now); other severe cases like this one, the family asks the medical team to do the work pro-bono. In this case, the family sent medical records from Iran to various hospitals and this Seattle team had agreed the baby's medical situation was dire and they agreed to do the work pro bono. I'm not sure if the family still has to pay for other stuff--at the very least, they would have to pay several months of room and board in Seattle.