Paradoxes of Faith

Praise Jesus for the American Cancer Society and their fight to bring care to the most desperate medical cases, especially when the patient has no medical insurance.  Now if only those in Congress and the Oval Office would follow suit.  

The society decided to devote its entire advertising budget this year to the problem of inadequate health coverage after reaching a stark and sobering conclusion. It has no hope of meeting its goal of reducing cancer death rates by 50 percent, and incidence rates by 25 percent, from 1990 to 2015 unless cancer patients gain quicker access to screening and treatment. 

Many patients are impoverished by their battles against cancer. A survey last year found that one of every four families afflicted by cancer used most or all of its savings in the battle, including one in five families with insurance. Their limited benefits could not come close to meeting the high costs of cancer treatment.