[Lizavetta]

There was an article here recently about how black women suffer most with breast cancer because they are less insured than whites, can't afford it, because blacks are afraid to go to doctors because of previous mistreatment of of blacks by doctors, etc.

The woman in the article had missed her annual mammograms because she was uninsured. So her breast cancer was undetected for a long time and now it's critical.

The picture that came with the article told me all I needed to know .... and a fact that the article failed, as they always do, to address. This uninsured poor woman could somehow afford a smart phone (and the monthly service charges) and manicured fingernails (which must be maintained) but not an inexpensive routine procedure that takes about ten minutes a year.

I am below the poverty line. I am insured (through divorce agreements) until May. But it's catastrophic care and covers nothing until costs are in the thousands. Here in California a mammogram is $99, whether you are insured or not. And I own a flip phone, not a smart phone.

If I can afford a mammogram so can she. But she chose to spend it on phones and nails. Color me very unsympathetic.

[gura]

THIS ^