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Thank you for your post.
And the terrible situation our government put your family in.
RIP 
we don't have universal coverage, and people like your beloved sister needlessly suffer and die. She isn't just a statistic to anyone with a heart and soul. I will honor her memory by keeping up the fight to make universal coverage a reality.
repukes keep talking about death panels as if they don't already exist
It certainly is illuminating. It's bad enough to be hit by a disease, but to have to also worry about the cost of treatment? That, to me, is unbearable.
I'm sorry you had to go through both your own disease but also the experience of your husband's. I don't know how people get through these phases of their life, but I guess there is no choice.
In your last paragraph, I think you should add an adjective: "It's just criminal that the most financially successful country in the world...." The U.S. is financially successful, but millions of people in this country think life is all about the dollar. Being successful financially. There's so much more to it than that, and to be fair, millions of others realize that, too.
Another example of how we are not successful is how our government has been hijacked for the purposes of big business. I do not consider this a democracy anymore, so there's another failure of the U.S. Drug problems, racism, inequality, and more. We are not even keeping up with nations like China in becoming energy independent.
Cher
and sister too. My sister could easily be writing the same thing for me in a few years if they get rid of the ACA with subsidies. My healthcare with the ACA and subsidies is 35% of my income (for now anyway...45 is sabotaging it). My disability income is about $75 a month too much to qualify for Medicaid. I have been fighting hard to keep affordable healthcare and will keep it up until I am too ill to continue.
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I remember when you posted about your sister in June.
I can't imagine how sad and angry you must feel right now. This is why we must all fight and put the pressure on our politicians to stand up for affordable healthcare in this country. This is just so wrong. My condolences to you and your family during this difficult time.
Sorry to hear of your loss - walk with her memory every day! Lost my mom to colon cancer, even though she had good treatment at Vanderbilt. Hers was the aggressive kind unfortunately, that kept coming back.
We agree with you totally that there's no excuse for lack of proper care, as folks have in other civilized nations. We have a portion of our populace that don't give a damn about their fellow man - yet claim to be Christian. The best things we can do in your sister's memory is to donate to the Cancer Society and fight like hell to win back Congress.
One (of many) things that hurts very deeply for me is that Republican policies most often hurt those having the least-heard voices - the sick, the poor, the disabled, and our minorities. These simply are not good people in the GOP.
I think I told you before how my dad has had stage 4 colon cancer for 4 years. It’s still controlled, but it is a constant worry. He has had a lot of problems with the side effects of the treatments. I feel heartbroken by your story. We need to take the profit motive out of health care so that everyone gets the care they need. A country that ignores the health of its citizens will never be a prosperous one.
R.I.P. to your beloved sister.
