Posted on 12/05/2013 8:15:58 AM PST by Aspenhuskerette
In the waiting room of Memorial Sloan-Kettering’s radiation treatment center, I discovered that in the race of life, those running to stay on the track are among the most determined, hopeful and courageous. They’re also grateful, for it’s in the sanctuary of sympathetic and expert care where cancer patients experience calm and clarity after the storm of diagnosis and decision-making.
As if living with cancer-induced anxiety weren’t enough, many Sloan-Kettering patients must Think Again about their treatment since the cancer center is among many prominent hospitals no longer “in network” for most Obamacare-compliant insurance plans.
Americans already have the world’s best health care system. The question is how to make it broadly accessible, especially to the most vulnerable. Claiming a monopoly on moral and political virtue and disparaging as uncompassionate obstructionists those who opposed the 2,700-page Affordable Care Act, lawmakers drove its passage, promising increased access, lower costs and, “If you like your doctors, you can keep them, period.”
Now it’s broken hearts and spirit — not just broken promises, websites and insurance systems — that plague intrepid patients, to their providers’ frustration. Meanwhile, healthy Americans laboring
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Brilliant! Kudos!
Nice. Great post...
“Think Again: Rather than allow politicians to divide us, remember we’re all freedom-loving Americans eager to realize our full potential in the race of life.”
Unfortunately, that’s not the case anymore. Half want to live under the tyranny of socialism/communism. The other half does not.
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