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To: mountainlion

“Let one of these liberal writers come down with cancer and watch what they demand.”

The poster boy for nationalized healthcare in the United States, Teddy Kennedy, went to Duke University hospital for his brain cancer treatment instead of locally in DC. His cancer had a low survival rate yet he pulled out all of the stops for expensive radiation treatment at Duke. In the New York Times article about Kennedy’s treatment (linked below) one sentence stood out, “These days, with a focus on controlling health care costs, it might seem that limiting patients’ options and restricting treatments that add maybe a few months of life might be a good place to start. But health economists say that would be a terrible idea.” Of course they are talking about one of the elites, not the little people.


20 posted on 08/18/2014 6:58:09 PM PDT by Soul of the South (Yesterday is gone. Today will be what we make of it.)
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To: Soul of the South

Link to the NY Times article on Ted Kennedy’s cancer treatment: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/28/health/28brain.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0


21 posted on 08/18/2014 6:58:59 PM PDT by Soul of the South (Yesterday is gone. Today will be what we make of it.)
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