How do I find.....?

You could ask them to prove it.

Thanks Bud but this person is incarcerated, I don't think they are able to prove it from jail. On another point--- does anyone know if the US army discharges you so you can attend school. Don't they send you to school while you are still in?

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In the past, the military did grant early discharges to attend college, especially if downsizing as they are now doing. I got out 45 days early to do so.  Attendance at classes while in the military is also possible and even encouraged. 

Thanks Dire.

Does anyone know if this would be real--- You are scheduled for surgery for a cancerous tumor but your insurance runs out so the surgery is cancelled and nothing is done for you. Would Drs./the system just leave you to rot?

Would this person be in anyway connected to the one who's incarcerated?  Since it all on the same thread, I'm just askin'.

Yes. She was a student of mine that I kept track of over the last 16 years. I don't know if she's a pathological liar or telling me the truth.

Please be careful.

Typically if someone who has a cancerous tumor and has insurance is scheduled for surgery, and they let their insurance lapse or be cancelled, then the hospital will typically let the individual know what they can expect to be charged (without the insurance) and they can decide how they want to proceed.  The hopsitals will typically work with them to set up some type of payment system, plus a discount, so they can have it done. They may also refer them to the state hospital where some of these cases are taken as teaching cases with huge discounts. Meanwhile, they will assist the person in getting onto Medicaid which will usally help with the costs. If they don't qualify for Medicaid, there should be insurance available for them (isn't that what ACA/Obamacare was supposed to do?), if they will pruchase it.  Pre-existing conditions cannot prevent them from getting insurance, supposedly.

So to answer your question, the medical profession does not allow them to rot away.  They will assit them in finding a solution. Cancer treatment is and can be costly depending on the type of lesion and the methodologies employed. I would suggest everyone over the age of 30 try to find some type of affordable cancer policy and purchase it, especially if they have a family history of it.

Thanks for your help.

I agree about having health insurance as my 28 year old son was diagnosed with cancer 3 years ago and I bet his treatment cost over half a million. Shots he had to get before each chemo to build up his white blood count were 12 or $14,000 EACH. Just crazy. I don't know what he would have done without insurance.

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Hope your son is doing well.

Thanks semi. So far so good.

I am grateful he got Hodgekins lymphoma as an adult and not as a child because as hard as it was it would have been unbearable to watch him go through it as a child. After his diagnosis and treatment, everything else in life is small potatoes.

Hodgkin's is one disease that medical science has shown to have a really good and effective treatment regimen.  I have several close friends and coworkers who have had Hodgkin's disease in early adulthood or late childhood, and they all are doing fine today following treatment.  If we were as successful treating all cancers as we are this one, it would be awesome.

Back in the '50s a man in N Ms, cured a lot of terminally ill people whom the doctors at the time had given up on from cancer. He was not a doctor, just the town genius of sorts.   He injected them with large vitamin doses in distilled water. Called the drug Kobiason (I don't know if that is spelled right, but that is how it sounded) .  The reason I know about it is my aunt was dieing of cancer in Huntsville and he pressured the family to try it. They did but she died shortly afterward.
The AMA would not accept Kobiason as a cancer treatment , as I recall, because it would not cure all cancers . Personally, I think big pharma just didn't want to admit that something as simple as mega doses of vitamins could be beneficial.
Tey, you may have heard of it.

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I can't really say I hard of it, but will do some research and see if I can find out about it. I will mention this in passing however.  Many years ago, but not that long (even 20 years), there were many diagnoses of cancer that probably were not really cancer. Today, we know this because we can use gene rearrangemnt studies and PCR to detect aberrations that truly predict the behavior of a neoplasm. When I first started practing there were several lesions that were considered cancer, but with a good prognosis, that today we know are truly benign lesions that will not kill you, and probably should be left alone. One reason we see such a high biopsy rate in screening tests is because of the fear of cancer, but about 90% of the lesions we detect are benign, but end up necessitating a biopsy (which cost the pateint / insurance money, and waste resources that could be used somewhere else. not to shoot the golden goose, but many of these things should really be left alone, and just watched. not every little thing that pops up on a scan is malignant.  Yes, we do pick up lots of early cancers, and we have a high rate of success treating them.

As far as big Pharma goes, if anyone ever develops a true cure for everything malignant, believe you me there will be a rush to see it produced, but the biology of cancer is such tha we are not yet close to doing this. It is my hope to see that such a cure comes about before I die for the sake of our children.

I think the political environment we have now regarding cannabis shows that big pharma still has a lot of sway over our politicians. I am still unclear (not really !) on why smoking marijuana for nausea is illegal, but a pill Marinol , made from marijuana, and packaged by big pharma, is legal.

I don't know if MJ can cure cancer , or anything else, but there are enough reports that it should be investigated, or at least de-criminalized so that if people want to try it, they can. I think that only two things stand in the way of decriminalization, big pharma, and ignorance, but all that is another topic.

I can give you my opinion of why it is illegal, though I cannot prove it. Taxation.

Pure and simple. The government will refuse to legalize marijuana as long as the masses subvert paying taxes on it.  It is too easy for it to be raised, harvested and sold in an untaxed format. It also has the potential to be a variable substance as far as medical use is concerned.  There are too many variants, and of those variants some are much stronger than others. There are some variants of the cannabis that provide anti-emetic usage that do not cause the "hgigh" typically associated with marijuana, but those variants are indistinquishable from other variants to the untrained eye, so basically the law engforcement and government cannot tell one from the other in an "uncontrolled" environment.  Personally, I don't mind if they do legalize it, heck I would even open up a clinic, but thus far the results in Colorado leave alot of questions unanswered and the verdict is still out about whether the illicit use of the substance may prove to be more dangerous than previous thought. Albeit, I doubt it is very much more dangerous than beer and wine, in my opinion.

A friend of a friend is going to CA to use cannabis oil for his cancerous tumor. He claims it has shrunk it. My son looked at alternative methods, e.g. the spice turmeric [his oncologist was Indian, said if that worked then no Indians would have cancer because they eat it every day], cannabis oil, vitamins and decided to go with standard treatment of chemo and radiation.

I have heard people say they believe there is a cure for cancer but big medicine is keeping it secret or the Drs. would be out of a job. Those people are just ignorant I think.

Although I know great strides have been made in the treatment of cancers it scares me to see studies saying chemo and/or radiation can cause heart problems later in life.

Desperate to help my son I asked his Dr. about using pot for side effects. He frowned and said well, ok, as long as you don't keep using it.

There are a lot of uses for that plant in one form or another, one acre of hemp can make as much paper as 4 acres of forrest, and it can be done year after year, it has been found that it can be used to make battery insulators that surpass the new best thing, Graphine, but at a much lower cost, figer can be made for clothes etc, not to mention the medical uses known and not yet known.
Yet, we are denied all this because a California newspaper man hated Mexicans in the 20's and got it made illegal, a dark spirited, war mongering president in the 60s hated the peace movement , and then again in the late 80s a president made it legal for police departments to steal private property if any was found. The reasons to keep it illegal are all ridiculous. 
Today, a news article that marijuana use has enabled people addicted to prescription opiates to quit them as it alleviates the pain. Every day another article of it's good use.

It may wind up being the wonder herb of all times.

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Your argument is counter-intuitive.  Were marijuana legalized, the government could regulate and tax it.  Just like it does alcohol and tobacco. 

marijuana is still illegal because the large 'beer and liquor' lobbyists pay a LOT of money to keep it illegal... and that's the bottom line.

Seems to be working wonders for your Cheetos and mountain dew addictions. 

in the immortal words of chester cheetah.. 'it ain't easy, being this cheesy'.

Marijuana indeed has a medical effect; taken over the long term, it makes people stupider.