Originally Posted By: wfaulk

I don't mean to exploit your friend's illness, I merely use it as an example, and cancer is an insidious disease that can have no symptoms until it's too late, so this may not fit his situation, but if your friend had had health insurance and had regular checkups with the doctor, his cancer might have been detected when it was still treatable. It's this sort of thing that bothers me.



Yes, my friend did have the kind of cancer that basically had no symptoms until it’s too late. I believe it was referred to as “small cell lung” cancer. It was caused by 30 years of smoking.

Like, me (even though I have average insurance coverage) he was of a mind set to only go to the doctor when you see a bone sticking out. That’s probably another reason men don’t live as long. They seem reluctant to go to the doctor.