Posted on 10/14/2012 5:09:00 AM PDT by Acton
An editorial writer at The New York Times (Nicholas Kristof) makes an impassioned plea to vote for Obama because a friend from his youth and days at Harvard (Scott Androes) is dying of cancer:
"Yet for all his innate prudence, Scott now, at age 52, is suffering from Stage 4 prostate cancer, in part because he didn’t have health insurance. President Obama’s health care reform came just a bit too late to help Scott, but it will protect others like him — unless Mitt Romney repeals it.
If you favor gutting “Obamacare,” please listen to Scott’s story. He is willing to recount his embarrassing tale in part so that readers can learn from it.
I’ll let Scott take over the narrative ...."
Kristof includes several paragraphs written by his friend, Scott Androes, which indicate that Androes feels like he "blew it" and feels like a "damned fool." Androes says, "I would have bought insurance if there had been any kind of fair-risk pooling." Androes also says, "I didn’t go see the doctor because that would have been several hundred dollars out of pocket — just enough disincentive to get me to make a bad decision."
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
But if we weren't so selfish and had the kind of health care system Democrats want, no one would ever die. Ever.
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Bingo and look how uber worldly and cosmopolitan Kristoff is these days. A Chinese wife of 30 years and interracial children! He is some hayseed!
How would having insurance prevented the cancer?
If he was successful in his career as a ‘financial consultant’ wouldn’t he have more than enough money to pay for his insurance?
Don’t financial consultants counsel their clients to have proper insurance to take care of unexpected occurrences like auto accidents, ordinary illness and catastrophic illness?
Should the US healthcare industry be turned over to the government bureaucrats so financial consultants who should know better are forced to pay for insurance.
Somewhere, along the line, we all learn that we must live with the choices we make......some learn this earlier than others.....
Thank you, Dennis...
Your post reminded me to take a little dose of the iodine I have on hand. I have a few kinds that are human safe to ingest like Lugols and an alcohol based version of that
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