Or that we have the "best health care system in the world"?
Think again, bucko. Yet further proof of how screwed-up and hugely, fantastically, absurdly expensive our health care system is and why it's not working for too many millions of us:
Players chip in to save coach’s life after Clippers decline medical coverage
Seven years ago, former Los Angeles Clippers head coachKim Hughes was diagnosed with prostate cancer, and the ensuing aftermath will change the way you feel about several NBA types significantly.
Up until Tuesday afternoon, the only functional knowledge I had of former Los Angeles Clippers head coach Kim Hughes was that he was, in fact, a former Los Angeles Clippers head coach, and that he once touched his elbows on the rim in a lay-up line at a high school tournament in Illinois, which really impressed my father.
Beyond that, nothing. Until Tuesday afternoon, whenHoward Beck brought this column to Trey Kerby's attention, and he brought it to our attention. And now we're passing the feel-good savings on to you, in the form of an anecdote that reveals that NBA players Corey Maggette(notes), Marko Jaric(notes), Chris Kaman(notes) andElton Brand(notes) all chipped in to pay for expensive life-saving surgery for Hughes, after the Clippers organization (read: Donald Sterling, noted worst person in the world) declined to cover the costs.
Did you get that?
Basketball players in the NBA had to chip in to help pay for the cancer surgery of their coach because the coach didn't have health insurance coverage.
This isn't someone in the lower class here, of course, either, ladies and gentleman. This was someone who, up until this situation, would be considered one of the "upper class".
THAT'S how screwed up health care is in this United States, folks.
Don't anyone dare tell me we didn't need---no, still need--health care reform in this country.
And Republican leaders trying to take away what little reform we did get, last year?
What unmitigated gall.
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Every one has a spare $70 grand laying around this is the richest country on earth.
Exactly, Jim.
Your multi-millionaire boss deny your coverage? No problem! Just whip out that 70 grand you had lying around! Heck, everyone knows we have piles of the stuff and nothing else better to do with it.
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