Cancer v the Constitution

[Viva_La_Revolution]

The patient in the emergency department smelled of advanced cancer. It is the smell of rotting flesh, but even more pungent. You only ever have to smell it once.

She had been bleeding irregularly, but chalked it up to “the change.” Peri-menopausal hormonal mayhem is the most common cause of irregular vaginal bleeding, but unfortunately not the only cause.

She hadn’t gone to the doctor because she had no health insurance. The only kind of work she could get in a struggling rural community was without benefits. Her coat and shoes beside the gurney were worn and her purse from another decade. She could never afford to buy it on her own. She didn’t qualify for Medicaid, the local doctor only took insurance, and there was no Planned Parenthood or County Clinic nearby.
http://drjengunter.wordpress.com/2012/03/28/cancer-v-the-constitution/

I was diagnosed and treated for stage 1 cervical cancer 10 years ago. The only reason I got a checkup was because I had insurance for the first time in my adult life. I lost the insurance 2 years later, and have been uncovered since.
This could have been my story.

[Doctor_J]

1. Should be entitled "Cancer vs. the Supreme Court"

There is nothing in the Constitution preventing Medicare For All. But the 5 sick, malignant partisan hacks on the Court will throw millions of Americans to the street to serve their johns.

[babydollhead]

2. I don't have insurance either

everytime I get hurt or sick I think "I don't have insurance"

[DesertRat]

3. k&r