RSSTale of two cancers.
Carolyn Hileman | July 2, 2009
Tale of two cancers.
Carolyn Hileman
This is something I have been hesitant to write because I would be writing about a wonderful friend and patriot who died from brain cancer, I also know that she would want me to carry on her fight and today I shall. Mr. Kennedy and his buddies up in the senate all want us to be grateful that they are trying to get everyone in the country health care and I suppose we would be if it was anywhere near the health care he receives. This is the tale of two cancers, one of which is a private citizen cancer and the other who is a lawmaker cancer, you see Mr. Kennedy himself had the same cancer my friend had, but things were a little different for him than they were for my friend, he had access to life saving surgery, why we mustn’t just allow a senator to die he might have to vote for something.
But my friend who is not one of those special people with money coming out her ears and the ability to write into law legislation that could help her died a painful death, with friends and family surrounding her. She was a wonderful woman whom you could not help but love, tough as nails on the exterior but sweet and lovable on the inside, something she would kick my butt for, for telling you. I often wondered after Kennedy was saved by that surgery what would have happened to my friend had she had the ability to have that surgery, would she still be here today had all things really been equal. That is the sum of my problem with the Obama care plan, there is not one, not one of those pushing this that are willing to say they will drop their insurance coverage and join the rank and file in this plan, not one, not even Kennedy who is pushing this.
The art of the sale is believing in what you are selling, you have to use it, you have to believe in it and so far there have been none of those who are saying we need a nationalized health care plan who are willing to be part of it so what does that tell you? They will keep their wonderful health insurance, the kind that pays for expensive surgeries to save you from brain cancer while we lay in a bed waiting to die. If this plan is so wonderful why should we have to pay for any of our public servants to have a different insurance, we could save a lot of money that way and maybe offset some of the expense of this new healthcare plan. I would think that if this was to be the perfect plan for us it would be the perfect plan for them.
Even those of us little people who have insurance do not have the kind they do, our insurance will not pay for expensive hospitals, specialists and the type of care Kennedy received, they would like you to believe that it does but the fact of the matter is you don’t get that kind of care, you spend a lot more out of pocket and then you wait to see if it is covered and spend years fighting if it is not. Not them they see a specialist if they split a nail, now if this is what they have planned for John Q Public I might think about it, but I suspect it will be more like the clinics where you sit there all day to go see a doctor who has long since stopped caring and they misdiagnose you and send you home. Therein lies the next problem, who would you sue if the treatment was bad? This is government run healthcare, you have to get permission to sue our government, now I don’t know about you but I don’t see that happening.
If and when the Congress and Senate and the President agrees to drop their insurance and join us in this wonderful plan they have created just for us I will give this plan some consideration, until then it is still just another tale of two cancers.
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