IN MY SHOES: “I Would Be Dead Under ObamaCare”
During the Fox News-Google GOP Presidential debate in Orlando, FL, last Thursday evening, former Godfather’s Pizza CEO Herman Cain, who was diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer five years ago, was asked by moderator Chris Wallace to explain why he says he’d be dead had ObamaCare been in effect when he first found out he had cancer:
The reason I said that I would be dead under ObamaCare is because my cancer was detected in March of 2006. From March 2006 all the way to the end of 2006, for that number of months, I was able to get the necessary CAT scan tests, go to the necessary doctors, get a second opinion, get chemotherapy, go – get surgery, recuperate from surgery, get more chemotherapy in a span of nine months. If we had been under ObamaCare and a bureaucrat was trying to tell me when I could get that CAT scan that would have delayed by treatment.
My surgeons and doctors have told me that because I was able get the treatment as fast as I could, based upon my timetable and not the government's timetable that's what saved my life, because I only had a 30 percent chance of survival. And now I'm here five years cancer free, because I could do it on my timetable and not a bureaucrat's timetable.
This is one of the reasons I believe a lot of people are objecting to ObamaCare, because we need get bureaucrats out of the business of trying to micromanage health care in this nation.
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