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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: bentway who wrote (498228)7/25/2009 6:23:00 PM
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I could tell you that same story about my mother. She spent the last two years of her life in and out of the hospital. Her medical bills ran into the hundreds of thousands of dollars, most covered by her insurance, but what wasn't was covered by her savings and split among her children. My share ran over $20,000.

My mom died of cancer and when diagnosed, told the oncologist, "if you can get me five more years that would be enough". And that's what happened. And those five years were worth every penny.

Improvements in cancer survival rates are measured in months. Maybe it is okay with you if the government decides whether getting a few more months is worth the money.

But it is obviously an absurd proposition that will set the practice of medicine back decades.
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