My friend Randal Cooper, whose life has also been touched by brain cancer, on healthcare reform:
I suppose that when my niece hits twenty-whatever, she’ll have to get her own insurance, and an inoperable brain tumor would fall under the category of “preexisting condition” and wouldn’t have been covered, so the choice would be pay out of pocket for thousands of dollars in scans every year, or take her chances with having a resurgence that could kill her.
Fortunately, she won’t have to make that choice, assuming that the Affordable Care Act isn’t repealed.