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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (11414)	11/17/2009 10:46:20 AM
From: i-node	Respond to of 42652

There are still only a few cancers with a good chance of a cure. The rest of those diagnosed are mostly tortured to death. So I'm not sure I'd brag about being the country that does so the mostest and bestest. This could be true. But if I am one day diagnosed with cancer, I hope it is early in the process and I will follow whatever treatment options are then recommended. It isn't perfect but it is the best there is. There are some cancers that were once viewed as death sentences that aren't anymore, and these changes are happening quickly. In 2003 a friend of mine was given three years max, but treatment options have improved substantially over that period and she is still doing well. I think progress is being made and much of that progress builds on earlier successes. And as a person gets older, I certainly think the treatment can start to look more like torture (when chemo had run its course with my mom and radiation therapy was then recommended, she informed her oncologist that "You're not going to put me in that damned oven" and she fought it on her own after that).