I’m glad I had my cancer in 2012. I was diagnosed, scanned and had the cancer removed withing two weeks. I had access to the oncologist of my choice and given the option of choosing whether to pursue further treatment basked on risk vs. benefit rather than cost to the state.
Who knows what would happen if I were diagnosed in 2014.
My brother-in-law was diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer at the beginning of December. He lives in Canada. Surgery is scheduled for February.
Those days will soon be gone forever and you can expect to get the same kinds of letters that Tony got.
I am hoping, partly because of Uhbama’s illegal extension to corporate insurance and partly because of sheer momentum, that my next year will not be too much worse than good old-fashioned American care.
Diagnosed in Sept and surgery by Halloween, now complicated by pulmonary embolism (PE) for Thanksgiving. I will be fighting both, potentially. Still waiting for 2nd opinion this week on status of cancer. Initial oncologist thinks I’m OK to go, but wants more expert opinion. So we’ll see. But definitely I am facing PE issues for at least 6 mos.
I think I’ll be OK in that time, since things probably won’t change drastically. But I always have concerns about this communism foisted on us!