They announced that a long time member of the ward, who had moved to the neighboring ward a year or two ago, had passed away from cancer. This lady, who is around 35 leaves behind a husband and at least 3 or 4 kids.
She had found a lump in her breast when her husband was uneployed and they had no insurance. She had to wait to get it checked out until he found a job with insurance. By then it was too late. Her breast cancer was too advanced.
This is what I thought when they announced her passing in PEC and from the pulpit:
It it absolutely reprehensible and embarrasing that our society allows people like this to fall through the cracks over the money it would have cost to diagnose and treat this early. The cost society will pay over the next few decades will be much greater than the cost to treat her would have been.
Probably 95 percent of the people in my ward are against any form of nationalized health care. I have heard comments like, "If somebody dies because they didn't have insurance, that's OK because they die in Christ".
I find the attitude of my neighbors to be most uncharitable and also very un-Christ-like in this area. Frankly, it mystifies and bothers me.
That's what I thought.
She had found a lump in her breast when her husband was uneployed and they had no insurance. She had to wait to get it checked out until he found a job with insurance. By then it was too late. Her breast cancer was too advanced.
This is what I thought when they announced her passing in PEC and from the pulpit:
It it absolutely reprehensible and embarrasing that our society allows people like this to fall through the cracks over the money it would have cost to diagnose and treat this early. The cost society will pay over the next few decades will be much greater than the cost to treat her would have been.
Probably 95 percent of the people in my ward are against any form of nationalized health care. I have heard comments like, "If somebody dies because they didn't have insurance, that's OK because they die in Christ".
I find the attitude of my neighbors to be most uncharitable and also very un-Christ-like in this area. Frankly, it mystifies and bothers me.
That's what I thought.
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