In America; You are diagnosed with a brain tumor, malignant. You do not have health insurance because you are between jobs or some other reason. There are countless Americans without health insurance. You see the specialist and he prescribes chemo therapy. Since you have no health care coverage you DO NOT get the chemo right away. You find out that if you write the drug company and explain your life story and they decide whether you are worthy of the drugs. They also tell you that you should go door to door and ask your neighbors for money to help pay for your chemo. If you are eloquent enough to write an appealing letter to the drug company they may decide you are worthy of the drug. By the time they decide you are worthy it's often too late. A month can go by as you wait to be judged worthy or not. My father-in-law was judged worthy after my wife wrote a pleading letter to the drug company for him. He died anyway. The cancer specialist said that the extra month waiting for the drug could have been what made the treatment worthless. If he would have had insurance he would have gotten his chemo when needed. All this in America! We need serious health care reform so good people do not die because they are less fortunate. And this ain't Sweden. Our economies are totally different. There's no comparison to make between the two countries.
