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There is a very big difference between non-lethal cancer and lethal cancer. "Treating" a late-stage cancer is an order of magnitude more expensive than treating a cancer that was diagnosed early.
Yet there is a waiting list...
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The problem is that cancer treatments are extremely expensive and not usually very effective. Believe me; the hospital is not pulling these charges from thin air. The right course to take is avoid contracting cancer for as long as possible, and if you do get cancer, to find and treat it ASAP. If you do get late-stage cancer, you can pay for a drug and treatment regimen that may provide you with a few more months of l…
Cancer, even late stage cancer, can be successfully treated.
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You might be able to get ER treatment for when the cancer throws a clot and causes a stroke or infarction, but somehow I'm guessing that ERs don't perform chemotherapy and radiation for people who can't pay. Am I wrong on that? Do ERs perform chemotherapy?
Public hospitals, for instance, are required to provide indigent/uncompensated care.
My father was diagnosed with Stage IV colon cancer in 2007. He died in 2010 at the age of 60. I was 25. He too had multiple surgeries, chemo, radiation, etc. While we here in Canada don't pay directly for treatments, there was the cost of missed work, medical supplies, and the like. The following is directly, and deeply, informed by my own very personal experiences with cancer: Let her die. Chemo isn't going to save…
I'm very sorry about your father. My father was just diagnosed with cancer (literally today). Obviously what you wrote is not sound advice for all kinds of cancers. I have two close family relatives who were cured of two different kinds of cancers (yes "cured", as in they lived for a decade plus after being cured and one died from other causes and the other is still alive). There are also people who are cured through…
>With that said, there are people who beat even the deadliest cancers, and that very small chance, is one worth thinking about.
I vividly recall looking at the 5-year survival rates for people diagnosed with Stage IV colon cancer. . I don't know if I've ever stared at a single character on a screen for so long. That was about a year or so before he died, and I remember the mental gymnastics I went through trying to rationalize how he would be the exception. At the time, it seemed unthinkable that we would give up. Of course we would pursue every option.
I can't say what I would do if I were in that position again; I can only say what I wish I'd done at the time.
I wish the best of luck to you and your father.
I'm sorry for your problems, but could you please clarify a few questions for me because there are a lot of problems with what I'm reading: 1) You claim to be 22 years old, but your dad hasn't had a relationship with your mom in 25 years... what does that even mean? 2) You're 22 years old and you accumulated $150k already? What sort of work did you do, and for how long? 3) You claim to be penniless, but you spend you…
1. They don't get along. They haven't slept in the same bed in 25 years. tl;dr my father is Catholic and doesn't believe in divorce, and no matter how big of an asshole my father is to my mother, she won't divorce him because she still loves him. 2. I mentioned it in the post, but to clarify: sold some tech to a hosting company, sold a few domains I scooped up, lotto ticket, had some really well-paying clients. 3. Ag…
2) How do you get free monthly Uber credit?
3) That's 3 very intense treatments over the course of 6 months. That doesn't leave very much room for monitoring to see whether or not the treatment worked. What was the schedule of treatment over 6 months?
Will it take every single voting age person in America having a first-hand experience like this to change health care? How can any sane person prefer this over the alternative offered by Developed countries?
You say "the alternative" as if every other country on Earth has one system, and the US has a second system, and that first system is what we should have. Whereas all those other countries have a bunch of different systems (compare Canada to the UK to France to Singapore). And each of those systems has real tradeoffs for real people. (To be clear: I'd be fine with many, even most, of those tradeoffs, but people who a…
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You seem to be mistaken on both counts. First, a federal law called EMTALA requires hospitals to provide emergency treatment regardless of citizenship or ability to pay. Second, there is more violence in the UK (about 2.5x-3x times as much per capita -- 993 violent crimes/100K vs. 399 violent crimes/100K) than the United States. And more pro-2A decisions from courts have led to a trend of reduction in US gun violence…
Those violent crimes in the UK don't tend to involve guns and/or becoming dead. UK homicide rate: 1.2 per 100,000 persons US homicide rate: 4.7 per 100,000 persons You are more than twice as likely to get beaten up in the UK than the US. You are around 4 times as likely to be murdered in the US than the UK. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentiona... The UK has a violence problem, probably at leas…
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Those violent crimes in the UK don't tend to involve guns and/or becoming dead. UK homicide rate: 1.2 per 100,000 persons US homicide rate: 4.7 per 100,000 persons You are more than twice as likely to get beaten up in the UK than the US. You are around 4 times as likely to be murdered in the US than the UK. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentiona... The UK has a violence problem, probably at leas…
Nobody is saying that gun violence doesn't exist (though I wonder how much is limited to inner cities in areas none of us want to live in if we have a choice). But we're talking at cross purposes. The first post talked about violence. The second talked about violence. The third in the sequence, yours, switched the discussion to talk about homicides . Not all violent crimes are homicides.
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I'm very sorry about your father. My father was just diagnosed with cancer (literally today). Obviously what you wrote is not sound advice for all kinds of cancers. I have two close family relatives who were cured of two different kinds of cancers (yes "cured", as in they lived for a decade plus after being cured and one died from other causes and the other is still alive). There are also people who are cured through…
No, it's not for all types of cancer. My advice relates only to those with terminal, metastatic cancer, and is not an admonition but rather a reflection on what I wish we had done. >With that said, there are people who beat even the deadliest cancers, and that very small chance, is one worth thinking about. I vividly recall looking at the 5-year survival rates for people diagnosed with Stage IV colon cancer. . I don'…
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Main reason I never want to live in America is health care. Just knowing that no matter what I'll be admitted to the hospital and treated is something I never want to live without. *2nd reason would be gun violence.
You seem to be mistaken on both counts. First, a federal law called EMTALA requires hospitals to provide emergency treatment regardless of citizenship or ability to pay. Second, there is more violence in the UK (about 2.5x-3x times as much per capita -- 993 violent crimes/100K vs. 399 violent crimes/100K) than the United States. And more pro-2A decisions from courts have led to a trend of reduction in US gun violence…