| Thank You. She has been fighting it for 10 years and at this time there is No cure. |
Cancer is a scourge upon humanity, and I hope it is eradicated soon, for the sake of your wife, my aunt, my self, my children, and all of humanity.
Meanwhile, to follow-up here:
| No one can plan for Cancer and NO amount of individual planning could provide the money required to treat it. |
That is a gross mistatement of the facts. Why do I say that with such certainty? Because I have had the opportunity to purchase cancer insurance and/or additional medical insurance coverage many times in the past, and even now, as a 'cancer survivor' (skin cancer, which to many people might not count...) I could still purchase such insurance *if I shop around* and *if I spend my own money on*.
So, for you to say that 'no one can plan for cancer', you are completely and totally incorrect. People can, and many people do, plan for what could happen to them if they should get cancer, or if they should face other catastrophic illnesses. They purchase private insurance, put money into trust funds, or use other personal responsbility style financial planning to leave themselves covered regardless of what comes their way in the future.
What you propose -- repeatedly -- is that the government should take responsibility for all of this, and that individuals shouldn't have to make such decisions or face the costs that are associated with these sorts of benefits. That is wrong. You've been shown that multiple times but you keep barking up the tree because you want the rest of society to pay for things you could have paid for years ago if you had taken just a few pennies a day, or a few dollars a month to pay for insurance that would have offered up hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars in potential benefits that would cover cancer, heart disease and cardiopulminary related needs and a lot more.
The government does not need to cover those things and needn't rob from the rich to cover the poor. Many of those things would cost a lot less without a lot of governmental interference and bureaucracy imposed upon the businesses that are involved. People could possibly afford to spend their own money on coverage for some of these coverages if they had more money left in their pockets rather than having the money robbed from them to contribute to the Social Security pyramid scheme, or the Medicare coverage plans that most will never benefit from. Leave the money in the hands of the people and let the people buy their own coverage with it. Let competition work to bring down prices, and get rid of the government hand that keeps screwing up the marketplace and draining upon the economy.
