Man Uses $1m Win To Finally Visit Doctor, Gets Terminal Cancer Diagnosis, Dies

[The Industrial Atheist]

Dude, it's not about whether you have health insurance or not.

According to the article it was.

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Are you saying health care should only be for the very hardest workers? Because if so that's ridiculous.

I'm saying that people have some personal responsibility to see that they have insurance.

In this case, they say he was a skilled carpenter, yet couldn't afford health insurance. That means he wasn't disciplined enough to be self-employed, and should have been working for an employer with health benefits.

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Lol. TIL that all health insurance plans are equal, I guess. I'll tell you right now that if it weren't for Medicare Part B I wouldn't have been able to afford dialysis treatments or a kidney transplant. Good ol Nixon gave kidney patients socialism in the 70s. Other people aren't so lucky.

Not so lucky? That attitude is part of the issue. People pay for everything else in life, but act as if you need luck to pay medical bills. No, you need insurance, and a savings account with money for deductibles. If you work hard and don't buy lottery tickets, you can have those things.

There could have been any number of factors that have nothing to do with personal responsibility. Maybe there weren't enough contracts available for him, you know the work dried up? Or maybe he physically couldn't do enough work to afford insurance? The guy did have lung and brain cancer. Things aren't always cut and dried, black and white. Saying it's always or almost always about personal responsibility gives you a simple answer, not necessarily a correct one.