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hunter

(38,310 posts)

1. Our health care system is rotten.

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Thu Apr 4, 2013, 04:43 PM

Apr 2013

People who have money and cancers that are not really treatable get inappropriate medical care and die in very ugly and expensive ways, while people who have cancers that are treatable but have no money die because their cancers are not caught early or they can't afford appropriate treatment.

We desperately need a national health care system that is blind to wealth and gives appropriate and effective medical care to anyone who suffers the misfortune of needing it.

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Cancer clinics are turning away thousands of Medicare patients. Blame the sequester. [View all] babylonsister Apr 2013 OP

Our health care system is rotten. hunter Apr 2013 #1

+100 Auntie Bush Apr 2013 #2

There is no system! GeorgeGist Apr 2013 #4

I find this interesting, having just had an $8,000 per month prescription approved 1-Old-Man Apr 2013 #3

U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A! Wednesdays Apr 2013 #5