Kid With Cancer Hopes To Realize Dream Of Meeting Competent Oncologist
One definition of satire is to ridicule a situation or event in order to expose or correct it, making good satire both painful and funny (think The Office). This article in the satirical paper ‘The Onion‘ was right in in that it is both funny and painful. I often feel like it’s my fourth job (after my real job, my coursework and parenting) to fight for the best care. Whether its appealing the insurance company, gathering letters of support, reapplying to Medicaid or soliciting funding to cover travel expenses, it is MUCH easier to get mediocre care than excellent care. And all too often the fight is to great and people have to settle for good, not great. I think this article does a good job of making that point.
If air travel worked like health care.
More satire! I have written a lot about how much time it takes to manage health care… the appointments, insurance, travel arrangements, sending documents around, finding specialists, getting specialists to talk to each other and on and on. This video does a brilliant job of making that point by showing what air travel would be like if it was managed like health care.
