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The people who can afford to do so, will pay out of pocket. There are a lot of people who can and when they have these conditions, they will use whattever resource they can to stay alive.

In addition, the people of means all over the world will continue to come...as they already are doing. I saw so many people from all over the world while there.

When it comes to these conditions...life and edeath...it was so neat for me to see how people's cultures and ideoloogies melt away in the face of that condition. Grandpas and Grandmas, parents and children...they were all just that, and very willing to interact with others to share their conditions and experience there. Such stark conditions, times, and decisions regarding health and life and death, I saw tended to bring people together.

And to a person, no matter where they came for, I saw them thankful to God above, however they addressed Him, that the Unitied States of America had a system that could generate a place like MD Anderson where they could come.

I expect MD Anderson will continue to get the funding and the pateints they need to stay in operation. it's just that a large segment will now be denied. But as others find that with Obama Care their local providers are, in effect dumbed down and overburdened with care...those who can will use their resources to go to these places and they will continue to operate, helping whomever comes to their door.