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Another reason for national health care

There is a front page article in the NYT today about people that are afraid to take DNA tests for fear that their health insurance might drop them if they are predisposed for certain diseases; including breast, colon cancer and Huntingtons Disease.

Many of them will seek out privately labs and spend hundreds of thousands of their own money to get checked, and if they test positive, plead with their doctors to not to mention in it in their charts. Some don't even tell their doctors about their findings out of fear the insurance company's will cancel their policies.

I don't know to post a link, but I am sure most of you do. Or, just go to the NYT website.

So glad I get my brain cancer in the nick of time. I betcha if Blue Cross had an inkling they would have dropped me in a New York minute! ;>D





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