Health Care In A 3rd World Country

[unapatriciated]

http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/countdown-goes-free-clinic-held-new-o

It happened as I watched a 50-something woman walk out, after spending several hours being attended to by volunteer doctors. "She's decided against treatment. A reasonable decision under the circumstances," the doctor tells us as she heads for the next patient. The president of the board of the National Association of Free Health Clinics tells me why: "It's stage four breast cancer, her body is filled with tumors." I don't know when that woman last saw a doctor. But I do know that if she had health insurance, the odds she would have seen a doctor long ago are much higher, and her chances for an earlier diagnosis and treatment would have been far greater.

After watching for hours as the patients moved through the clinic, it was hard to believe that I was in America...

[damntexdem]

1. Not hard for me to believe it.

Just hard to take.

[Wapsie B]

2. We're number 1! We're number 1!

:sarcasm:

[StreetKnowledge]

3. Fourth Stage Breast Cancer.

Ouch. I hope that woman at least spends what time she has left enjoying her life.