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23. My dad was treated at Johns Hopkins, too, but they couldn't save him

His pancreatic cancer was too far advanced.

But he remained vigilant to the end. A few months before he died, he noticed there was a suggested bill to reduce the amount of outpatient cancer treatment covered by Medicare from 95% to 85% (this was summer 2000). From personal experience, he knew what this would mean. He was able to arrange a conference call, weak as he was, between himself, Senator Moynihan's office and the Clinton White House, laying out for them that if outpatient coverage were reduced, patients would check themselves into hospitals for the higher degree of coverage for in-patient treatment--at far greater cost to the government. Both Moynihan and the White House did a simultaneous "oh my God, you're right," and the measure was abandoned.