> insurance will pay for most of it. Ehhh. Insurance will pay for what they want to pay. That means some treatments will be completely covered, and other trea

> insurance will pay for most of it. Ehhh. Insurance will pay for what they want to pay. That means some treatments will be completely covered, and other treatments that your doctor really think should happen, won't be approved. Sometimes its because the doctor's out of wack and the insurance is calling bullshit on them (that's good!), sometimes insurance are just cheap (that's bad). The biggest issue to me is getting far enough to even diagnose the cancer. In the US, they tend to just want to go through as many patients as possible. Maybe toss you some pills, but that's it. It's hard to get doctors to go through the more advanced diagnostics. I had gallbladder stones for a while and it took FOUR YEARS of every doctor I talked to dismissing it as GERD (wtf) and countless ER visits before one lost patience and did the ultra sound here and there. "Oh, look at that, its not just plain stomach pain". But who cares about finding the root cause when you can just keep billing patients after patients for GR visits where all you do is take their vitals and prescribe PPIs. If I had cancer, I'd be dead. But yes, on the other end of the spectrum, my grandmother in Canada almost died because of critical and time sensitive heart surgery she needed that got cancelled and rescheduled over and over and over...