{"id":2227,"date":"2005-05-08T19:16:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-08T19:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2227"},"modified":"2018-06-09T08:47:18","modified_gmt":"2018-06-09T13:47:18","slug":"2227","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/08\/2227\/","title":{"rendered":"The Unasked Question"},"content":{"rendered":"

Because I’m just crass enough, I’ll ask this question: Would Helen Harcombe<\/a> be alive if she lived in a nation with a free market health system?<\/p>\n

Michelle Malkin<\/a> links to the BBC weepy about a woman who died from cancer and left instructions for her husband on how to raise their daughter. However, amid the tissue-sopping prose, we get this glimpse of her health care decisions:<\/p>\n

\nMrs Harcombe, who was 28, died shortly after Christmas 2004. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2002, nine months after finding a lump in her right breast.<\/p>\n

Her family said she had been initially told she was a “low-risk patient” because she was just 26.<\/p>\n

She had undergone a mastectomy, but by last year the cancer spread to her liver and she was told she had six months to live. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Nine months from lump to biopsy, friends. Because “she had been initially told”–by her government health care provider, no doubt–that she was low risk.<\/p>\n

In America, we can still get that second opinion and get that damn thing checked out in a week or two. Before it gets the opportunity to gestate into a death sentence. Whether you’re a “low risk” patient or not.<\/p>\n

Well, most<\/i> of us have that chance for the second opinion. Until the government ensures that all of us get a chance at its<\/i> provider’s opinion. For The Children. The Children of everyone but the Helen Harcombes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Because I’m just crass enough, I’ll ask this question: Would Helen Harcombe be alive if she lived in a nation with a free market health system? Michelle Malkin links to the BBC weepy about a woman who died from cancer and left instructions for her husband on how to raise their daughter. However, amid the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20146,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227\/revisions\/20146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}