Granted, if you’ve got some type of cancer growing inside of you, you probably would.

But then sometimes it’s more comfortable to keep your head in the sand, too, so I guess playing the “what if” game has too many possible outcomes to be useful.

You miss the point. You will die of your cancer if you are uninsured because you showed up in my ER and I diagnosed you with the unresectable Stage IV horrendioma (you pick) that might have been diagnosed earler through access to routine screening care.

I’ve diagnosed several incurable cancers in the ER in the last couple of months. All were uninsured patients with no real access to primary care.

shadowfax

1: People often make the effort to qualify for their states medicaid system after a cancer diagonsis. Often they just have not taken the time to fill out the paperwork/get qualified or don’t have the knowledge on how to fill out the paperwork and need some help.

2:Those evil pharma company’s have low income/hardship progams that will give drug (even the newest chemo) at a discounted rate or free. The paperwork can be a pain for the doc and the patient’s need to show evidence of financial hardship.

The system is not perfect and people can and do fall through the cracks (which they often do EVEN WITH INSURANCE). But please, next time make the effort to understand the issue. You don’t see me pontificating about urology billing/hardship issues because I don’t know them

onc doc