PRE-EXISTING CONDITION AFTER CANCER DIAGNOSIS

The day a cancer diagnosis becomes a pre-existing condition

 

Like we learn everyday when things change, everybody is different.

What you do after a cancer diagnosis isn’t the same as someone else.

They might go along their way as if hearing a bee buzzing nearby. Shoo, cancer/bee.

Or they might fall down on their knees and cut loose.

Everybody’s different.

Look at the map below and compare it to a loyal reader map.

This one is fuller.

If it were possible to switch I’d have more readers in more states and there would be fewer states of pre-existing condition.

Everyone would be happier, but that’s not how things work.

 

 

The painful part of the vote to repeal Obamacare is the region it most affects.

Bright red is President Trump’s base.

Ohio and Michigan people voted for his kind of change.

Now they get the change on a pre-existing condition they didn’t vote for.

 

 

What do you do with a new cancer diagnosis and today’s House vote?

Just the word cancer invokes the sort of fear that makes grown men weep when they hear it from friends.

It makes women show the sort of strength all men wish they had.

And it leaves them all out in the cold.

Who lets that happen?

 

 

Today, May 4, 2017, is proclaimed National Prayer Day.

Look at the pre-existing condition map again.

The biggest population of uninsurable has a distinct Southern flavor.

Isn’t the region of greatest religious participation?

The Bible Belt, the pre-existing condition capitol of America, just got knocked out by their own guys.

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Expect more bad pre-existing condition news from the Southland.

 

 

For all the floods and hurricanes and bugs and critters on the crawl, this may be the biggest disaster in the South since the Civil War.

If Hurricane Katrina was the greatest civil engineering failure in American history, the Obamacare repeal in the House may dwarf it in suffering.

NY Times:

…the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina marooned Memorial Medical Center in Uptown New Orleans. The hurricane knocked out power and running water and sent the temperatures inside above 100 degrees. Still, investigators were surprised at the number of bodies in the makeshift morgue and were stunned when health care workers charged that a well-regarded doctor and two respected nurses had hastened the deaths of some patients by injecting them with lethal doses of drugs.

Mortuary workers eventually carried 45 corpses from Memorial, more than from any comparable-size hospital in the drowned city.

Here in America we elect officials who seem to hold our best interests.

We like people who see what needs doing and does it.

But what happens when the elephant in the room lumbers over and donkey kicks your healthcare too far away for you to reach?

This is the President of the United States, elected by the people for the people.

Any pre-existing condition he or his supporters have in Congress won’t go unheeded.

They are doing the countries business, after all.

A cancer diagnosis phone call to any of them won’t be answered the same as their constituents.

For one group it will mark the beginning of the cancer treatment process.

For the other group it marks the end of hope.

Ask any cancer survivor about the power of hope.

 

 

A domestic legacy of striking fear into people suffering a pre-existing condition doesn’t qualify as a win.

That’s not a health insurance policy with a high deductible, it’s a policy of soul crushing power.

As if a cancer diagnosis isn’t soul crushing enough.

That’s no way to wish a Happy National Prayer Day.

In 1789, President George Washington proclaimed a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, calling upon Americans to “unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations.”  In 1988, the Congress, by Public Law 100-307, called on the President to issue each year a proclamation designating the first Thursday in May as a “National Day of Prayer.”  On this National Day of Prayer, the right to pray freely and live according to one’s faith is under threat around the world from coercive governments and terrorist organizations.  We therefore pray especially for the many people around the world who are persecuted for their beliefs and deprived of their fundamental liberty to live according to their conscience.  We pray for the triumph of freedom over oppression, and for God’s love and mercy over evil.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim May 4, 2017, as a National Day of Prayer.  I invite the citizens of our Nation to pray, in accordance with their own faiths and consciences, in thanksgiving for the freedoms and blessings we have received, and for God’s guidance and continued protection as we meet the challenges before us.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this fourth day of May, in the year of our Lord two thousand seventeen, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-first.

DONALD J. TRUMP

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Then there’s this: