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

[John V]

Unfortunately there are times where people work hard, do everything right in life, and have good health insurance... but still aren't able to keep up with the extremely high costs when plagued with a difficult and long term diagnoses.

My best friend is currently going through this. Two years ago her symptoms started and have rapidly progressed. As of today she's been diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyalgia, and autoimmune hepatitis. She needs ongoing care for these chronic life long conditions and is in constant pain. It hurts to breathe, she says, because it stretches her rib cage. It hurts to lay because she is laying on herself and everything hurts. She still manages to drag herself up everyday and work her 12 hour desk job, which is a small miracle in and of itself, but doesn't know how much longer she can do that as her condition continues to progress.

She's finally now starting to go into dept from all the medical bills and still has to keep paying for new visits, treatments, etc. She has good insurance, but that just goes to show how expenssive it all is. It is very expenssive. She's never done anything wrong in her life - doesn't smoke, doesn't drink, never done drugs, never done any sort of risky things... She's just a regular, quiet person, a homebody.

I'll admit I don't know anything about economics and don't really have a "plan" for how to fix this. But I do think there needs to be better options somehow.

I've had two family members die from rheumatoid arthritis. Hate to say it, but doctors make it worse.

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Seriously, you think that people with a poor work ethic are just as likely to have wealth as those with a strong work ethic?

Yup

Then you're a fucking moron.

you can be lazy as fuck and make fortune people have . And you can be smart and hard and wind up poor as dirt  people do . Thus blaming people for their own poverty is bullshit.

Anecdotes of exceptions don't disprove the rule.

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Republicans: AFFORDABLE CARE ACT DIDN'T SAVE HIM!  SO OUR SOLUTION IS TO MAKE HEALTHCARE LESS AFFORDABLE FOR PEOPLE LIKE HIM SINCE THEY"RE GOING TO DIE ANYWAY, AND CHEAPER FOR ALL OF US HARD WORKERS WHO WERE FORTUNATE ENOUGH NOT TO GET SICK!

Until this shitty attitude changes, we're never going to get the solution we need (universal healthcare)

First, no, the GOP isn't working to make health care less affordable. The ACA is still in place you know.

Second, why do you specify Republicans? Democrats have had all the power before, and we didn't get universal healthcare. They could have. They didn't. Next time they're in power...they still won't.