| Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. Representative Dave Camp, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee who is seeking to overhaul the U.S. tax code, said he plans to work while getting chemotherapy treatment for cancer in the next few months. “After a recent routine yearly physical, it was discovered that I have a very early, highly treatable and curable type of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma,” the Michigan Republican said yesterday in a e-mailed statement. “My health is otherwise excellent, and my doctors and I expect a full recovery and cure.”
We note, in as respectful a way as is possible and while noting that we wish our good Congressman a speedy and full recovery, that there is a connection between high levels of dioxin (Dow Chemical) and rates of this particular form of cancer. We also note that our good Congressman has been a fervent supporter of repealing "Obamacare" which would have guaranteed access to health care for sufferers of Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma who aren't lucky enough to have the health care coverage of a sitting U.S. Congressperson. Update! ... For those following a link in this post from The Michigan View, I recommend very much going to this post for a rebuttal. For those who refuse, probably because you're disinclined to read and absorb more than one source on something before arriving at a conclusion of utter certitude, let me sum up ... 1. You will have never heard anyone on this blog call for greater civility, so if Jeffrey Hadden wishes take those seriously based on what he considers to be incivil comments here, he's an idiot; 2. Everyone who reads this blog and writes things here wishes Dave Camp a speedy and full recovery, as we do with everyone; 3. Dave Camp's track record is one of placing roadblocks in the way of people who suffer from the kind of cancer he has developed, by supporting the repeal of reform that guarantees them access to health care and by shielding from accountability the company whose activities are connected to the development of the very cancer from which he now suffers; 4. Perhaps Dave Camp will have some kind of epiphany, in which he realizes that he and the rest of his party have been playing games with other people's health, and if he does good on him. If not, he should probably expect at some point someone to say that he got well at taxpayer expense only to turn around and use his good fortune to continue plahing games with the health of people who labor through the same disease as him. |
