Teresa Heinz battling breast cancer

WOODTV.com ^ | 12/23/2009 | AP

[South40]

BOSTON (AP) - Teresa Heinz says she is being treated for breast cancer and will undergo a new form of radiation treatment next month.

The 71-year-old wife of Massachusetts Senator John Kerry is urging younger women to keep undergoing mammograms despite a federal panel's recent recommendation to reduce the frequency of the tests.

[South40]

I wish her the best, even if she is a reprehensible witch.

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

Hopefully she can get the care she needs.

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

Obamacare will take care of her ailments. /sarc

Wishing her well.

[South40]

She’ll go to Canada, of course, because our healthcare system is broken. /s

[a fool in paradise]

She should do as her husband is encouraging others to do and go to a public hospital under a government program.

[Track9]

I bet Johnny boy is already thinking about jumping ship.

[EggsAckley]

I, too wish her the best.

Interesting to see a Lib contradicting the Obamacare edicts.

[a fool in paradise]

How much of the estate will be eaten by inheritance taxes?

[NMEwithin]

I hope her treatment goes well...as someone whose own wife is battling breast cancer and at the risk of sounding cold-hearted, anytime a high profile person like this is afflicted with the disease it only helps to strengthen the cause and also to show how utterly reprehensible the new federal guidelines for screenings are...

[Westlander]

How many months did she have to wait for a Radiation Oncology apponitment ? How months before actual tratment commenced ?

[texan75010]

So Terezzzzza....how’s that hope and change workin out for ya?

[benewton]

Of course!

Only the best for those of us forced into the “public health care “market””.

Still, I wish it were him, ‘cause while she’s a flake, her impact on our lives is zero.

[lowbridge]

Prayers for Teresa

[llevrok]

I wish her the best, even if she is a reprehensible witch.

Roger that.

[massmike]

Prayers for a speedy and complete recovery.

[A_Former_Democrat]

Depends on her estate plan

[South40]

I bet Johnny boy is already thinking about jumping ship.

Not 'til after the reading of the will.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Agreed. I confess it is starting to be difficult to be sympathetic to the wives of the seditious and/or treasonous. I hope she gets the exact same treatment under the medical care the rest of us will be required to accept under the new socialist regime.

[b4its2late]

She’s lucky she didn’t get it after Obamacare. Oh wait, she’s privileged. Hope it all works out okay for her.

[airborne]

Her illness points out the clear problems with ObamaCare and the coming rationing of health care for the elderly.

If she was one of the "poor, uninsured Americans" that this travesty is supposed to help, Obama would direct her to a "panel of medical experts" who would determine that, given her advanced age, she isn't a high priority, and that they would order her doctor to "give her a pain pill" to make dying a little easier for her, and more cost effective for ObamaCare.

In the end, Teresa could do her country a great service by setting an example and dying gracefully.