White House Goes Pink for Breast Cancer Awareness Month
EmailABC News' Karen Travers reports: The White House will feature a splash of pink this weekend to mark Breast Cancer Awareness Month. On Saturday morning pink ribbons, the symbol of the breast cancer awareness movement, will be hung on the columns outside the White House front doors and will remain there over the weekend. First Lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden held an event on Friday at the White House to bring attention to the challenges that some cancer patients face finding and maintaining health insurance. “In this country getting sick shouldn't mean going bankrupt,” Mrs. Obama told a crowd of lawmakers and cancer survivors, “If you've already fought cancer you shouldn't also have to fight with insurance companies to get the coverage that you need at a price that you can afford.” -Karen Travers
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It is unfortunate that patients and doctors spend considerable amounts of effort trying to negotiate coverage from insurers for rather fundamental care.
Unfortunately, this effort is of no value except to the insurers and the result is that it indirectly costs patients financially because any effort by doctors spent in trying to convince insurers to provide care must ultimately be paid for by increased fees. As well, delays in treatment because of such negotiations mean that costs are higher for treating conditions that have progressed further.
Posted by: Wellescent Health Blog | October 24, 2009, 10:03 pm 10:03 pm
It’s nice that they are doing this, but, why are they doing it near the end of the month? They couldn’t have done it at the beginning? The NFL has been wearing pink all month.
Posted by: William Teach | October 26, 2009, 11:25 am 11:25 am
Breast Cancer Awareness also ties in with the need for affordable health insurance. Until all Americans can afford to go for regular check-ups and screenings, we will continue to have people discovering they have late stage cancers rather than catching them early at a more treatable stage. I recognize we all will die one day, but people dying decades earlier from treatable cancers or pneumonia left unseen by a doctor too long, etc. is a terrible personal, financial and unnecessary loss for us all. My patriotism is not only for the land that is our country, but the people that I call fellow Americans.
If your patriotism doesn’t cover caring that 45,000 Americans die each year because they couldn’t afford expensive private health insurance, I honestly don’t know what you are being patriotic toward.
Posted by: Lydia | October 26, 2009, 12:53 pm 12:53 pm