Here’s a ‘fun’ anecdote to illustrate this point. A friend of ours was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma a few years ago at 25. Before she was diagnosed, sh

Here’s a ‘fun’ anecdote to illustrate this point. A friend of ours was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma a few years ago at 25. Before she was diagnosed, she had gone to the hospital feeling sick and achy. After a full, 12+ hours at the hospital, it was clear she had some kind of cancer. Imaging showed she had a baseball sized tumor in her chest. One more test was needed to confirm which variety so a course of treatment could be prescribed. It was already quite late (after 11pm) and the hospital staff said she could just come back in the morning to finish the one remaining test. The next morning, she went back to the hospital and was denied the test. Apparently, some inhuman garbage at her insurance company had decided in the middle of the night that they could save a little money by forcing her to do the test in a clinic setting. Since she hadn’t officially received her cancer diagnosis, she had to wait another four weeks to get the required test. Every day the tumor growing a little bigger. She’s doing fine now by the way! She lost her insurance after turning 26, but did benefit from impeccable timing - she got one of the first Obamacare plans, it probably saved her life.