Healthcare Premiums Become More Expensive for the Uninsured?

My grandmother has a mastectomy in the 60s and she will turn 80 this year. My aunt died of breast cancer on Christmas 11 years ago. My aunt had a mastectomy after a normal diagnosis. Not late, not an unusual happening at all. It seems that it somehow happened that they didn't get it all, so 8 years later it came back and spread throughout her body including her brain.

The doctors tried everything but she just got sicker and sicker and sicker, finally they put her on an experimental drug which I am sorry to say I can't remember the name of. I hadn't seen her for a few months, the last time she was in bed near death. Well, I first saw her again at our family picnic playing softball and running the bases like a child. It looked like a miracle.

The problem was that this drug didn't affect the brain tumor. Something about the brain's defense that kept it from working. A year later the tumor killed her on Christmas.

BUT she had 10 more good months of life and this gave my grandmother and her time to make amends for an argument they had years prior.


What happened to your sister is complete and utter bullshit and anyone should know it. The problem I have is that we shouldn't let fear drive us to do something that we don't know will work, hell we really don't know what it will do at all.

It shouldn't be hard to create rules for cases like your sister's.

 

man, thats tragic. i was so eager to belittle maxiep that i completely neglected to read your story. it kinda puts in perspective what honest, ordinary, hard working americans endure with an insurance company lobby more potent than govt. i encourage u to tell your story as often as u can at these town halls and by writing to your representatives

 

We shouldn't rush but we have and opportunity to do something. I see more and more people around me dealing with expensive medical bills and rising premiums. Hell, it's the number one cause of bankruptcy.

I don't care if it's the Republicans or the Democrats or whoever but we need to make changes. We have dozens of nations we can look at to understand how we can implement reform. I'd like to start from scratch and have a bi-partisan report on the best way for reform. The debate has gotten WAY too politicized.