{"id":934096,"date":"2026-10-15T15:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T15:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/934096\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T15:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T15:40:10","slug":"filipino-man-working-in-montreal-faces-crushing-debt-after-emergency-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/934096\/","title":{"rendered":"Filipino man working in Montreal faces crushing debt after emergency surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Emergency spinal surgery could leave a man in Montreal who isn\u2019t eligible for Quebec health insurance facing hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While Alvin Reyes has a permit to work in the province \u2014 where he has resided for three years \u2014 the type he has does not qualify him for coverage under the R\u00e9gie de l\u2019assurance maladie du Qu\u00e9bec. The private insurance he got as an alternative will cover only a fraction of the costs related to his recent medical emergency, including spinal rehab for him to be able to walk again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe biggest problem that I have is that I\u2019m the only one that supports my family,\u201d Reyes said in a phone interview from the Montreal General Hospital on Tuesday. \u201cWhat will happen to us?\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency spinal surgery could leave a man in Montreal who isn\u2019t eligible for Quebec health insurance facing hundreds&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":918062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-934096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/918062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}