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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: John Koligman who wrote (4333)2/6/2008 12:42:38 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (2) of 42652
 
Remember that insurance doesn't pay for the custodial care that the old elderly need, only skilled medical care. It's the cost of custodial care than leaves them destitute, not the medical care. They would be destitute when they reach the age of needing custodial care regardless of the presence of any cancer. So we may just be counting the elderly destitute, who more than likely have some cancer or another, as being destitute on account of cancer. My dad had prostate cancer. You can live for a decade with prostate cancer. I betcha just about every man in a nursing home has prostate cancer. And most of them would be destitute. If you have congestive heart failure you need skilled care, which is covered, so you are less likely to become destitute. And it's not cancer.

Who knows what's in those numbers...
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