Former CIA contractor, former SEAL, falls through medical insurance loopholes

Matthew Wojciechowski, a fit and healthy retired U.S. Navy SEAL, was working as a contractor for the CIA's Global Response Staff in a Middle East outpost. Suddenly on Dec. 21, 2011, he was struck with crippling chest pain and was soon shaking violently. "I felt like I was going to die, and as an American citizen, I was trying to get some help," he told Fox News. "But was told because I was a contractor I was under a different set of rules for care." So instead of being examined by a U.S. medical professional at the consulate, Wojciechowski said he was shocked that he was sent to a local hospital – and seen by a doctor who did not speak English – who misdiagnosed him simply as having heartburn.