# Cancer + No Insurance = ?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cancer-no-insurance/532033>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 10, 2010, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cancer-no-insurance/532033 "2010-03-10T21:34:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cancer-no-insurance/532033/21 "2010-03-12T15:55:52Z")

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> [@ataraxy22](#):
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> maybe partake in some medical tourism to India or somewhere?

That only works to give you a \*cheaper \*option, when you have some kind of coverage and/or savings. Nobody in, say, Dubai is going to pay for a plane ticket out, treatment, hospital stay, and a plane ticket back for a broke American with no insurance.

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**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cancer-no-insurance/532033/22 "2010-03-12T17:14:34Z")

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Not to put too fine a point on it, but how much treatment should we be providing someone with brain cancer **and** advanced stomach cancer?

Come on - sending him to India? For what? Seriously - it does not sound like this guy needs anything much beyond a clean bed and six months worth of morphine.

Regards,  
Shodan

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**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cancer-no-insurance/532033/23 "2010-03-12T18:11:22Z")

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> [@Shodan](#):
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> Not to put too fine a point on it, but how much treatment should we be providing someone with brain cancer **and** advanced stomach cancer?

Palliative care–which, from the last update, it appears he’s getting–brain surgery, to remove the pressure from the tumor and a stroke, so he’s getting feeling back on his left side. Phew. I was just worried that he wasn’t getting seen by \*anybody \*for _anything_.

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