Monsters inside us. Don’t drink the water, don’t eat the food, don’t breathe the air and get back to normal sex with just one person. The Reptiles are coming and they are very big and very hungry.

How about reporting the pathology report. That would certainly be more informative than “solid as a rock and growing tentacles.”

agreed,but that would require a reporter to be more than a parrot

Wow it was even growing testicles.

Alien egg-sac! Run for your lives!

And it would require the reporter to know what “pathology report” means.

Poor reporting – what a surprise. Article never identified the tumor as cancer (it wasn’t), but notes that the patient has been “cancer free” for a year. Pretty stupid.

“Attention to health is life’s greatest hindrance.”
- Plato

http://911essentials.com

Probably NOT a cancer (carcinoma) per se. It was probably a benign neurogenic neoplasm, which is the most common posterior mediastinal mass in adults.

BTW I’m a doctor.

Too bad the reporter can’t shut up and let the people tell the story.

put down the pizza Moochelle

Cancer free? Who said anything about cancer?

Now if we can just figure out a way to get rid of that PITA cancer growing in our White House…

Know what you call a person unqualified to even ask if you want fries with that? A journalist.

This tumor should be allowed to vote democRAT.

Must have taken a gulp of water from the Rio Grande when he was swimming across… that stuff will kill you.

Carbon dating at a local University has proven the tumor was over 350 million years old and was it fact caused by one of the first global warming eras.The Al Gore institute will be making a plaster cast of the tumor and will be worshiped daily by adoring liberals

I agree with this prognosis. I’m not a physician, but I did spend the night at a Holiday Inn.

I loved most all the comments. Certainlly better than the “journalist”.

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing, and I am not a doc, but tumors of that size are normally NOT cancer. Funny how they said he remains “cancer free” when he probably did not have it to begin with. Wonder why they would do that?

I survived a 9lb Sarcomma in July 03
It was cancer and this probably was as well.
Dr. Dumb Dumb.

How about some photos of what the tumor looked like after it was removed!!

Hey Danno,Whats normal Sex? one person? All by yourself?

Fact that he’s getting Pet-CTs suggest to me it may have been malignant.

It’s not a tumor.

I had a 24cm (vollyball size) mature teratoma cancer with hair and teeth growing on

my heart artries..now thats cancer!

It’s great to learn of some genuinely good news! Thank you to the skilled surgeon who saved this gentleman’s life and we hope that he and is family are doing well! Best wishes from Southern Cal.

Gosh, I had ovarian tumor of a size of a cantaloupe too. Doctors at Kaiser told me it was abdominal fat. They wanted me to lose weight. I changed insurance companies and the tumor was removed.

FYI – the doc probably was paid about $800 for the whole thing, post-op care included. For about 20 hours worth of work. Before paying her office staff, malpractice insurance, office lease, and buying cotton balls. Definitely NOT overpaid!

@ Hank Warren:
You know not of which you speak (or write). How do you know that “Obamacare” would have denied thig [sic] guy? You don’t know at all. You’re just spouting off because you don’t agree with universal coverage. I don’t agree with universal coverage either, but I’m not going to state such blatant lies because I have a problem with it.
Please city which protesters have been placed in cages; please cite where/when/why/how “America Deceived II” has been banned; please cite how the internet has been censored; who has confiscated guns? Please explain how bodily searches conducted by the TSA infringes our 4th & 5th Amendment rights? Please try to remember that it was George W. Bush who started the undeclared wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Somebody prayed to God to save this man. And, it was answered. Give credit where credit is doe…to Him.

This sounds just like what my 18 yr old daughter went through starting Halloween weekend. She had surgery last Wednesday in Tucson. She named her tumor Gregory Ganglioma. It weighed in at 4 lbs and 8x8x10 inches. It was a type of tumor that had been slowly growing inside her all her life. We are pleased it’s been removed and that she’s recovering in the ICU.

Great to hear this ended up well for the patient. Cancer’s terrible for everyone.

Nice to see good news for a change -

You need to up your meds. Seriously.

What more than WOW can be said. Medical technology and the skill of surgeons in this country are second none. He would have died under Obama care or in any country with socialized medicine..

So true… not to mention medical school loan bills, and the fact that he had to wait until after 4 years of college, 4 years of medical school, 5 years of residency and 2-3 years of fellowship to receive a real paycheck…. Doctors truely dedicate their LIVES to the care of other people.

“It’s not a Tumor!” – A. Schwartzeneggar

We all need to come to terms with the frailty of life. Sooner or later we all die and Perhaps i am among the few who believe even if i live to be 200, its all just a puff in the wind and what awaits me on the other is far more significant that any experience i could have here. Just because medical science can give me a new heart does not make it a good decision. There was a time when if one lost their hands, they would learn to type with their feet. Today, so many extraordinary things are being done in the name of life, but if we all receive extraordinary care who will be around to pay the extraordinary expenses. Live well, find your faith and die with dignity.
I have an illness that probably will not kill me, but i will live with it the rest of my days. While it could be cured, the cost would be more than i will allow to be spent on my body.

We KNOW this doesn’t work. Prayer as an assist in breast Ca & others has been tested- NO difference.

Not all tumors are cancer. A bunch of other things can cause a mass (even in the chest) that are not cancer. The microscopic evaluation of the mass will tell the tale & should have been part of the report.
Looks more fist size than soccer ball sized, but good luck to you sir.

You both need to grow up this country is going to pot with or without obama. period……

I agree with the basic idea that this kind of treatment would not be denied under a universal health system. But what’s this about putting (sic) after the misspelling of the word “this”. Honestly, none of us have all day to perfect our copy. Show a little decency. You don’t need to insult someone just because you disagree with them.

I work in the Health Care field as well, as a Physician. Things are NOT for the better, but don’t let that get in the way of your anti-tea party rant and the required nasty comment about relation to a President Killer. Jerk.

Look, he’s a phony!!! Here he says he is an engineer! Liberal dork.

“DONALD E PFAUTZ said:
Yeah, sit back relax read a paper, complete a contract, have a brew, and forget about traffic, parking, and all the other driving hell. I worked as an engineer for Amtrak Acela service and our trains were sold out virtually every day! I watched the goons stacked up on the New Jersey Trnpke every day as I rolled into Manhattan ON TIME. Try it ,you
will wonder why you ever tortured yourself driving!!!

A soccer sized tumor. Hello Barry bonds. WWWWWWwweeeeeeeeeeeee

Trebla>>>>>>>>That is completely untrue. There have been many scientific studies that have proven you wrong. Many by atheist scientists who tried to disprove it. Take your lies somewhere else.

No, Not a phony, I worked for Blue Shield New York after retiring for railroad!.
Conservative Dork?

Are you playing God? Who do you think gave these doctors the intelligience to be able to be in their profession? There are instances where I question if medical research is overstepping moral authority. However, to remove a tumor or prescribe medication is not immoral! God gave us a body and expects us to care for it. Taking medication or removing tumors is taking care of the temple God gave you!

I noticed that STEVE THE PHYSICAN did not use his full name! Could it be that
he was afraid to be outted as a phoney!
Not many physicians that I associated with had the time or inclinaqtions to respond to this rabble!

Thank GOD this did not happen after 2014 because it might not be a covered option so the choice might be end of life consseling or a pill

Of course you were an Amtrak engineer AND worked in health care….a “natural” career change, Donald !

WHAT A POSER…My guess is your REAL “job” is as a Liberal blogger TROLL, brought to us by those “fine ” folks at SEIU, ACORN, etc.

And yeah, sure….”totally strange” that a DOCTOR would be commenting on a MEDICAL article. Freaky, huh ?
And everyone KNOWS that doctors are not entitled to FREE SPEECH…FREE SPEECH is only allowed for LIBERALS…no one else !

And why would anyone with half a brain use their real name on any of these sites? You liberals are a violent lot ! (See Bill Ayers, AZ. shooter, violence from liberals attacking people at Tea Party gatherings, etc, the list goes on and on…you insert OK bombing example here _____)

Your all a bunch of sissies.I got a furball rthe size of a Volkswagen in my stomach and no insurance.A guy down at 7-11 told me eventually I will cough it up.That,s four years ago and I,m still here and so is the furball.
I,ve learned to live with it.

It is a bit cowardly of you to try to find some reason to be defiant in rejection of other people’s REAL experience. The fact that others have found a measure of faith to bring about healing and life saving testimony should not be your place to present your case based in stubborn refusal to accept the truth about things such as healing. My hope is that you have a miraculous encounter with a life changing experience as well. Maybe then you would see how ignorant your comments are.

26 year olds are not children

How do you know Obamacare will take care of it in 2014. There are going to be fewer, less paid doctors, fewer insurance companies, fewer businesses providing insurance because it will be cheaper to pay the fine than provide the insurance
I believe it was Al-Queada that flew into the twin towers that started the war. Clinton could have had Osama Bin Laden killed if he wasn’t to busy defending not having sex with that woman. This whole mess we are in can be blamed on several administrations, both left and right.

Here! Here!

My wife was having contractions at 22 weeks that were 50 seconds apart. The doctors had made the decission to deliver our daughter. My mother and my mother, two women that never missed church began to pray together. A miracle happen shortly after. The contractions stopped. All the Terbuteline and other medicines they gave my wife din’t stop it. The prayer of two women did. Twenty four years later my daughter serves in the Navy and is working on her Masters in Political Science. And I well I still don’t go to church but I do believe.

Prayer helps. Wether you believe it is Gd’s grace answering, or a simple good vibe sent to one who is in need, it helps.

I for one believe that God guided the hands of that surgeon.

Get your butt to Church, Marc.

Very doubtful, Donald. If anything, you’re the one more closely related to Booth since OUR party freed the slaves while YOUR party started and fought a Civil War that killed over 600,000 Americans to preserve slavery. BTW, no remotely sane person thinks this atrocity will improve things– in addition to unilaterally giving the govt the power to pull the plug on dissidents of the regime, there will be a dramatic rationing and worsening of quality to go with the explosion in cost– who exactly is going to dedicate his/her life to become a doctor and work like a slave for minimum wage when they can (temporarily, until the economy completely collapses) land a govt job for 1% of the work, and 5 times the pay with an eighth of the required IQ?

@ Jim: “26 year olds are not children”.

Under ObamaCare they are.

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totally uncalled for… what gives you the right or expertise to say that Obamacare (not even its real name btw), would have killed this man? Stop playing your stupid political games and just be happy that this man was saved by a great surgeon and his team of medical practioners.

The doctors did it. Doctors can do it because they have teachers.

You don’t pray yourself to work. You take a car designed by engineers.

You don’t pray a light on in your house. You use electricity, harnessed by engineers.

You didn’t pray your propaganda onto the net. You typed it on a computer designed by engineers.

Wow. You are what is referred to as a mental midgett

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Obamacare as currently constituted is a nightmare! I practice medicine too and the re-imbursement will be so bad that NO one will be a physician… never mind the question of its constitutionality

Then why hasn’t Obama finished the war in Afghanistan? Why promise to bring our troops home (a political promise) only to turn around and send out troops to Afghanistan? What would Gore, Obama, or any Democrat have done in Bush’s place on 9/11? Oh, that’s okay, here’s my other cheek! All is forgiven, and I apologize if America has done anything to offend you.

I’m sorry you are so ignorant but the congress and senate voted almost unanimously to go to Iraq and the 2 hold outs were Ron Paul and Maxine Waters, one from each side. that would make it both bi-partisan and very legal unlike President Clinton’s rendition program that sent prisoners to Egypt to be tortured, not water boarded, but really “pull your finger nails out and put a hot poker to your eye” tortured!
Why is the left always playing hypocrite with such simple things?
BTW Obamacare will bankrupt the country because a)we can’t pay for it and B)you can take from peter to give Paul without Peter losing what he has, in this case earned and c) 90% of Americans were happy with their health care (Obama’s 30 million without health insurance figure) that would be the highest percentage of Americans to be happy with anything, ever! The only reason to mess with it is redistributing the wealth which just discourages innovation and risk, which will leave no producers to pay for anything. We call that the Domino effect.

he meant sanitation egineer

I live in Canada and we have free health care which is paid and managed by the governmnet (no insurance company forms to fill out!). I can see as many doctors as I like if other opinions are needed. Everyone in Canada regardless of financial status has this benefit which is paid for by the government out of the tax pool.

Way past time the USA should get health care for everyone and eliminate the insurance company beraucracy in the USA. Employers dont need to worry about these costs and neither do the employees / citizens.

The USA is the last country in the world that does not offer free health care to its citizens.

My mom had 2 artificial knees installed in one year and the cost was an absolute big fat zero. No forms to complete. Just a doctors approval and it was done.

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Andy…….If the canadian healthcare system is that wonderful, why did the canadian prime insiter recently travel to the USA for heart surgery? And, btw, there is no such thing as free healthcare. Someone has to pay for it. The canadian taxpayers are getting shafted! And government provided healthcare rejects considerably more claims then private health insurance.

THANK YOU, I HOPE YOU NEVER NEED CARE LIKE THIS…….. BUT YOU KEEP IT IN CANADA AND THE DOCTORS IN AMERICAN HOSPITALS WILL CONTINUE TO TREAT ALL THOSE THOUSANDS OF CANADIANS WHO LOVE YOUR SYSTEM SOOOO MUCH THEY WILL TRAVEL TO THE USA AND PAY DOCTORS WITH CASH TO TREAT THEM………..

I was replying to Hank Warren’s ridiculous assertion (where it is he, not me) that goes off topic to blame Obama for our two undeclared wars. What you fail to see is the red herring that Mr. Warren throws out there. He makes a snide remark about how this tumor wouldn’t be treated under universal healthcare then goes on to pontificate about protesters in cages, banned books, internet censorship, gun confiscation, ad nauseum.

It was free, huh? You do realize you pay more for EVERYTHING to support your “free” healthcare. Or maybe you don’t. E

life expectancy in both uk and Canada ..significantly higher than usa…check it out..and then rethink that confusion about government health care.

Hi Andy, I live in the United States, and people who work in our medical system, work that system like welfare recipients.

For example, they know our system called medicare will pay with no questions asked, any billing related to diabetes, so should you happen to end up in our system no less than 12 doctors will stop by your room to visit with you and then charge Medicare for “diabetes” evaluations.

It’s fraud and decay that is destroying our system, which was reasonable just a few decades ago. But hey, our media couldn’t be honest if they tried, so nobody ever hears anything but “the party line”.

Yeah, we have a controlled media in this country, they do what they are told, and they never bite the hand that feeds them; be it the hand that gives them their licensing to operate, their corporate owners, or the corporate clients… NEVER EVER EVER.

Got room for about 20 million Americans up there in Canada? They’re coming! Believe me, they’re coming.

Too true. Maybe people who only care about truly helping people will get into the field of medicine, instead of people looking to get rich. People who think more about the money than the human beings they’re supposed to be helping!

Yes, that’s why American life expectancy is lower, and infant mortality rate is higher. Sounds to me like a MUCH better system we have in the USA! To hell with babies and old people!

I’m glad you like your own healthcare Andy. Please don’t worry about ours.

Now go get back in line before you miss your chance for a cardiac procedure this coming fall.

Lies. Go file a claim to your health insurance and find yourself out of health insurance – THAT is what happens in the US free enterprise system.

Except that there’s no “compensation” in Obamacare . . . it’s NOT single-payer. It’s private health insurance. So it will be precisely like it is now. Nothing will change.

if that is always true, then why is my grandmother a retired former US military teacher looking to have her heart surgery over in Germany?

dont’ forget to mention Chinese (who have almost no health benifits)have only 6 months less life expectancy to the US citizens who have the most expensive health benifits?

it was the premier of Newfoundland, not the Canadian PM, and there are not that many open-heart-surgery hospitals in NFLD, pop. 200,000. -s he took it to the nearest facility which was in the USA. Then… his CANADIAN health insurance paid the bill’
Don’t knock it if you have not tried it… I see the most preposterous things said about the Canadian system by right-wing propagandists and I’m living proof that the Canadian system is very fine indeed.

blatant lies are mostly funded by the insurance idustry. They have paid hundreds of trolls to keep up the confusion.

Stephen Harper, the Canadian Prime Minister has never undergone heart surgery!!

yeah and dont forget the majority of unrepaid student loans comes from doctors and other expensive degrees. Doctors can to pay the bare minimum back on their student loans so that they can run out the timer on paying them back. People who’s degrees cost less than 40k tend to be able to pay them back before that timer runs out.

so if the doctor got $800, how much did the insurance company keep for themselves?

God doesn’t guide doctor’s hands – training and experience moves those hands. YOu can’t call 10 years of education a miracle. Though staying sane enough to survive the 10 years of study – now that should be looked at as a miracle.

I don’t think this story is about politics. It’s about a man who had a bizarre tumor and overcame it.

The States will not allow the enforcement of Obamacare. The Federal Courts have already halted it in total. Virginia’s AG is pushing a fast track to the Supreme Court.

The Communist in Chief will ignore the Constitution and the Courts and the People until he’s burned out of office. It’s what he does. So no worries. Numbers are on your side.

Just stay away from the coastal states. They are the crippled economies that will drown every other state and call it social justice. Set up practice in State’s that have filed suit That’s why we are called “these United States” instead of the “Federal Empire of America”.

Nothing in life is free. But that doesn’t make it bad. I would be willing to pay a little extra in taxes in order for everyone to have health care. Wouldn’t you?

I would like to comment on this argument going on with Canadian healthcare and U.S. healthcare. I have heard many people do not have a primary care doctor and use a lottery to be picked to get one – it takes years. Also, it may be years before you have elective surgery. And, the level of care and MRI and CAT scan machines is limited in many areas. They must travel to get care. We also must remember that Canada has 33 million people while we have 300 milliion. And, it’s true that a Canadian gov’t official came here for heart surgery and that people with the money do come here for treatment. While “free” healthcare is wonderful, it is not free, you pay higher taxes, and there are some things lost with universal healthcare. The level of care is not the same no matter how much people insist it is.

Elena, You are right, we do pay more for everything. Things like electronics, TVs and things are more expensive here. But with eBay, you can get most stuff pretty cheap, your dollar is quite low right now. Mind you, we don’t have some things to buy, you can’t buy guns here and there are no companies to bailout. I think movie tickets are a bit pricier here also…

Tell that to my canadian friend who lost her life due to your health care. No docts for months, Some on the other side of the country where she couldnt get to. They had to pay that. Joanne lost her life. My friend lost his wife, her children lost their mother all for that so call free healthcare. Yea when your dead its free too you, but the family still pays.

You might want to check your facts, there are actually millions of Canadians in Canada, not thousands. The population is small, but not that small. I am not sure why I would travel to the US to see a doctor. My doctor is fine, thanks (i.e.: he has a degree).

Unfortunately, you will have to go through customs like anyone else. Illegal aliens are not welcome in Canada.

Here’s a good column by David Gratzer, a Canadian, on Canadian healthcare.
http://www.city-journal.org/html/17_3_canadian_healthcare.html

I have read stories on CTV about how long you have to wait in emerg waiting rooms before being seen by a doctor 12-16 hrs and more. My mother had to wait almost a year to see a heart specialist. I have only been back in Canada about 6-7 weeks since 64, so I can only go by the news stories. I had to go to the Hospitall here in Germany about 2 months ago. From walki in stitching and out of the hospitall was less than 45 min. If my house doctor refers me to a specialist I can usually get an appointment for the specialist in about 3-4 days.
Another time I was refered to a Doctor Professor of Orthopedics on a Fri and was admitted Mon and operated on Tue for cervical herniated discs, not bad 4 1/2 days. Oh and no charge. I get better care than when I was in themilitary.

Then why do they need 100,00 thousand new pages of regulations to cover it! Your comment is absurd

Nothing from the government is FREE. How does the tax “pool” get filled? Answer: By the people. We pay for it. I would rather pay for my own healthcare and make my own decisions regarding my body. I don’t need some overstuffed politician in D.C. to say how, when, or why I get cared for.

You know who are awesome? Bicyclists. Maybe a little more bicyclin’ would cheer everyone up!

Kind of silly to think that other people would improverish themselves just to have the privilege of caregiving to you. Not sure I want someone changing my bedpan or bandages just for the thrill they get doing it. But I like your logic — we also need more people who truly care about fixing my car, and painting my house, and educating my kids—-all these people should also get government limited compensation.

It sure is about politics — like in Russia, the question is whether he would be a dead man now under the new health care system.

I like cookies

But what a wonderful way to indoctrinate them into socialism and keep them from becoming independent adults.

“Communist in Chief?” Your idiotic comments are a shame to your namesake.

You imply that all who wish to be physicians do so out of desire of wealth and greed. Thankfully, we still have people who choose to be doctors out of the desire to help others and realize that many of today’s problems with health care is that its focus has been dominated by profit, corporate growth, and the whims of shareholders, instead of, you know, helping people. People like you who think this way should be banned from practicing medicine, and I say this as a person who is against the Obama’s health care bill, whose intentions and function have been perverted and corrupted by greed from both sides of the political spectrum.

Employers don’t need to worry about these costs and neither do the employees / citizens. WRONG You DO pay for it in the form of HIGHER TAXES, dummy! It just won’t go through insurance to make profit, but to the government that will make profit to exploit and corrupt.

Hi, what does this have to do with the article, again?

Quote:”You imply that all who wish to be physicians do so out of desire of wealth and greed”

Exactly. I needed emergency heart bypass surgery in 96. The first surgeon I was sent to I asked if my GHI insurance would cover his services. He didn’t even want to hear about it – he told me I paid him and what my plan paid was my repay. Like who has $50 grand in the bank to pay for that? And this guy does 5 or 6 of these a day! The second surgeon agreed to accept my plan in total, but the “assistant surgeon” and the anesthesiologist wanted their cash – period, end of story.

Ever look in the doctors parking lot at your hospital? So yeah – there are guys looking to clean up at our expense.

What a non-story. What was the histology of that tumor? What was its grade? All we know is that it was big. Cannot discern anything about its biology, and therefore its significance. Poor journalism that speaks to lack of intellect and lack of diligence

For a long time, Canadians who wanted elective procedures came to the US for them. Joint replacements, cardiac bypass surgery are just two that I recall. You can get the care you want but you have to wait for it unless its an emergency. That is the trade off

There is only one real way to fix health care, and that is to remove the greed within the system. Healthcare should be about the patient, not the next Bentley in the doctor’s garage. Cap all doctor’s income to $150k. Anyone should be able to live very comfortably on that. I survive just fine on less than $60k with a wife and child. Replace health insurance with a flat tax, which is used to pay the doctors nation-wide. Don’t think it is possible? Here are the raw numbers:

812,770 doctors = $121,915,500,000
Tax is then 397.12 per year per person in the US (307,006,550 in the US as of Jul 2009). That equates to $33.10 per month per person in a household.

Now, before you get your panties in a twist, consider the following existing factors:
$4,479 – Avg employer cost per employee per year for health insurance
$730 – Avg each person pays per year in premiums
$210 – Avg co-pay for services per year

Now, I know not everyone is working, and not everyone has the same income. But if we get people involved and hash out the real numbers, consider the above idea, then, in my opinion, we may actually see an increase in pay to the general population. Yes, doctors will take a pay hit, but why should they get paid more than a policeman? A fireman? A member of the military? People that are actually putting their life on the line to defend America? Don’t get me wrong, I highly respect the skill and dedication of many doctors, but a good majority are more interrested in their pocketbook, rather than their patients.

I assume that you, Knox, have made that same decision for you own career. You know, be the change?

Yeah, people who make money at things do it just for the money. Personally, I could do any job as long as it paid me enough money. There is no amount of hassle I wouldn’t put up with doing something I don’t really take an interest in – as long as I could get loaded off of it. Especially true if I got paged when I’m at my kids basketball game because I’m a vascular surgeon and they need me at the hospital to work out how to get a soccer ball sized tumor out of someone, or take care of an unscheduled heart transplant, because a donor that matches just became available. Yesseree, that’s the life for me: telling peple they might not live. Wondering if I really know enough about medicine to save the patient. Yeah. Its the money really.

I didn’t see the part where he “overcame it”. I saw that a trained doctor who knew how to take the tumor out of him without killing him took it out. That doctor had to go to a LOT of years of EXPENSIVE school. If they limit how much doctors get paid – and this is definitely part of the plan – then who would bother doing the extra years of training it takes to do this kind of specialty work when you can hand out aspirin to illegals and still get paid? You writing your opinion on the internet is a political event involving your First Ammendment rights and the rights of the site owner to be on the internet freely publishing your opinion. Get educated. We are in fear for our freedoms under this president who is intent on placing the government in charge of our every move INCLUDING unfettered access to the internet.

What gets me is people have to pay for car insurance to drive but don’t complain and that’s mandatory in mosts and they hardly use it. But something they know they’re going to have to pay for one day, they don’t want to pay insurance for now.

Here’s somethihing to think about. A socialist/communist country will soon be the most powerful economic country in the world. China’s economy will soon be bigger and more prosperous than ours. True their human rights suck, but not all socialism is bad. You need the right mixture of socialism and capitalism to prosper.

If you don’t the rich become too greedy, powerful, and corrupt like they have here in the states.

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Here’s something to think about. A socialist/communist country will soon be the most powerful economic country in the world. China’s economy will soon be bigger and more prosperous than ours. True their human rights suck, but not all socialism is bad. You need the right mixture of socialism and capitalism to prosper.
If you don’t the rich become too greedy, powerful, and corrupt like they have here in the states.

Yeah, especially that board of bureaucrats (not doctors or nurses or health care professionals) that will make all the decisions on what is fiscally reasonable and financially feasible and what isn’t. I have forgotten, where does that board convened right now, Washington DC?

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American doctors are greedy and vastly overpaid. All that “training” time could be reduced if the AMA monopoly did not (1) require a useless BA/BS to go to medical school, (2) limit the number of medical schools to ensure monopoly-level profits, (3) vigorously and unfairly fight all forms of competition, and (4) encourage the gross exploitation that is called “residency”.

The doctors in the rest of the world make far less and in my experience offer better care (not so hurried, they actually care about patients).

American medicine is AWFUL. The only thing going for it – for now, this will end soon as America is bankrupt – is that it has the money to be on the cutting edge of research.

Maybe some thousands of Canadians come to the US for healthcare but Google “medical tourism” and you will see many thousands of Americans travel abroad for medical treatment as well.

The US system is totally broken. Even if you carry health insurance your entire life, you can be denied coverage for “pre-existing conditions” because, say, you switched jobs! Once you file a claim, your insurance premiums skyrocket.

And just TRY to get insurance when you are over 65! Almost impossible – everything gets switched over to Medicare, paid for by taxpayers.

In the US the insurance companies milk you your entire life for money (using it to spread ridiculous propaganda the right-wingers swallow hook, line …) and when you actually need something back, they ABANDON you!

I have health insurance in California. In the last 15 months (even though I have not used the policy), my premiums have gone up 89%! At a time when the state is in virtual depression!

2 things:
1) You you really expect the healthcare bill to make practicing medicine unprofitable? That violates some pretty basic fundamental economic principles. Such as:
A) Becoming a medical doctor requires a rare aptitude, temperament, and work ethic.
Therefore
B) The supply of M.D.s is limited ensuring their wages remain high. If they become even more scarce in the workforce will their wages not increase to reflect that? Reimbursement aside, Primary Care Physicians will still be able to see younger patients and if there are fewer doctors won’t it just get more expense for me (or my insurance company more specifically) to go to the doctor?

2) I respect doctors highly because I know how difficult it can be to work in medicine, but I’m really struggling to see how this is going to break the bank for a Primary Care Physician. What I mean is that if their average salary is $200k vice a gynecologists at $350k (I looked it up on the Wall Street Journal) is that really going to put anyone out of business? I can see that economically more doctors would want to go into a specialized field, but that ties into my first question about pay equalizing out as General Practitioners become less common.

3) How is the healthcare bill unconstitutional? Moreover, if you are concerned about the government being too involved in healthcare isn’t raising reimbursements just government activism? I only ask because a lot of people I hear who are very anti-healthcare reform are currently or will soon be on Medicare so I don’t understand how they can be pro-medicare spending yet healthcare reform is like poison to them. (I’m not assuming you to be in this category, but rather I just thought you might be able to shed some light on it).

I hope my tone isn’t combative, I just want to learn what people on the other side of the fence think. Not for any malicious reasons, just to learn about the other side of the coin. My stance is this: I’ll a 29 year old guy with a good job that pays well and I’m very pro-Obamacare. Likewise I freely give up my salary to help fund medicare, but if people want to label Obamacare socialism and vilify it, why should I pay for the socialism that benefits them (Medicare)?

Just goes to show, there may be a little Cthulhu in any of us.

Well played sir.

Yeah Knox, why don’t you come over and pay my mortgage so I don’t have to worry about how much the school loans are costing me for the expertise I just spent 15-20 years learning that I need to use when trying to detach that tumor from your spine????? Then I could just remove the tumor simply because I like you, and not because I want to get rich off of you! You use the same warped liberal logic that Obozo uses! Like him, YOU ARE A MORON!

Just like nothing would change when my company had to dump their current insurance due to the higher costs associated with Obozo-care? Yeah, nothing will change. If it’s private health insurance, why is the government involved, and micromanaging everything about it???? You need to get your facts straight Dr. Phil.

Yup! Absolute Communist! He’s a discrace to all who call themselves African American.

OH GOD!!!!!! Get off Obama this and Obama that already… Hell I didn’t even vote for the guy but I am not going to equate an article about a calcified tumor growing tentacles with Obamacare. Complain about something else already. How about complaining about the weather? BETEER YET…..how about STOP COMPLAINING!

People are going to have to admit that not everyone is as smart as a rocket scientist, a doctor, a Nobel prize winning physicist, or someone who knows tax law, or intellectual property rights law. In our society, people that know a lot, get paid a lot. A car mechanic, an accountant, or even a computer programmer will never make as much as a doctor or lawyer, A mcdonald’s worker, or a house cleaner will never make as much as that mechanic or programmer. Accept it and get over the stupid jealousy and greed that liberals like to encourage with their class warfare. Some people just get paid more than you do for what they know. That doesn’t make it wrong!! What is wrong with you people!!!!

When I have a guy ripping my body wide open to pull out a life sucking tumor, I’m not going to ask for the cheapest doctor I can find to do it. I don’t care how much it costs, and in fact, I’d want my doctor to be paid more than any other doctor if I had my choice! You can go get your doctor at the dollar store for your open heart surgery. I’ll take the expensive one. If American medicine is so bad, then Russians, Cubans, and Europeans wouldn’t be coming over here to get their procedures and surgeries performed.

I guess most people aren’t as ignorant as you are.

Deal, I was just curious what other people thought but your right, this story is to awesome to use is as a soapbox

The states don’t have an argument. They are arguing that no one should be forced to purchase health insurance. Yet we are REQUIRED to carry car insurance.

Paying the most for something does not mean you are getting the best care – it just means you are a sucker.

This is fairly typical of the comments made by people who do not like the health care reform bill as it stands. The comments are largely made in ignorance by people that are too lazy to check out the facts for themselves and look at those fact objectively. they would rather have pressure groups and Fox news make up their minds for them.

Sometimes it hurts to find out that the system you have idolized for years fails to deliver quality healthcare, results in statistically worse outcomes for patients and nevertheless manages to be the most expensive healthcare system on the planet.

Medicare typically pays less than the treatments cost now. Many hospitals and providers are beginning to limit the services they offer to Medicare patients. A local hospital here recently closed its psychiatric unit – deemed by many to be the best in the region. (typically psychiatric patients treated there did not have insurance and Their only cover was Medicare/Medicaid). It simply became to expensive to treat the patients. Unless something is done now when you reach 65 there will be no such thing as healthcare for you.

People die – sorry, but it happens. It sounds harsh but its true no healthcare system is a bottomless pit of coverage – everything is rationed – even in the US. – I can point to many examples here in the US where the healthcare system has been responsible for their early demise.

I have seen cases here in the US where patients are offered the opportunity to grasp at very expensive straws on the riverbank. Instead of making peace with what is about to happen patients are given false hope with expensive, ineffective or inappropriate treatments and the only group that benefit from this are the doctors who prescribe these treatments.

After all, when your surgery has just bought that really expensive piece of equipment arn’t you going to make sure you send patients to it so that you can recoup your expenses?

So? .. then fund the system better – I bet that even if the doubled the ammount spent on healthare per capita they still would not reach the spending levels here in the US. With double the spending on healthare then I’m sure patient wait times could become very reasonable.

Not that I am saying you are right – I’ve not been able to really look at the data to understand if the allegations on you heard on CTV are even true, but my argument is that if Canadian healthcare was implemented here and we funded it to twice the level of the Canadians, we would still see an overall reduction in our healthcare expenditure and have accessible treatments.

So it may be that the system itself is not bad but the funds available are insufficient. You are not comparing apples with aples.

I would like to know where in this article it talks about Obama and healthcare. All I have read about is a guy with a calcified, soccor ball sized toumor that was ten years in growing. You people need a life.

It can’t be any worse than the medical care we recieve now. I have had three serious illnesses in my life. Even though I had visited Doctors in each instance, not one were diagnosed until it was an emergency. That was three emergency surgeries diagnosed in the ER.
Doctors aren’t earning their pay any more!
More recently I had a cough, the Doctor ordered x-rays…one week after the x -rays his Nurse practioner called and said the x-rays showed pneumonia. But she also heard me breathing and asked me to go to the ER immediatly…I was in the Hospital again for a week.
I am for Obama care because it couldn’t be anyworse!!!!!

rob, not that I agree with people like H. Thoreau here, but please have a valid rebuttal. you only need car insurance if you choose to own and drive a car. you’re comparing apples to oranges.

Tom your listening to propaganda! I lived in Switzerland as an ex-pat for a year. I got started feeling bad and got a fever. I went to the Doctor and she said to me,
” You are so sick, you should have told us, we would have come to you!” I had a friend there who had a very bad headache, the Doctor did come to them.
They have State health care, too! I would trade our system for theirs in a heartbeat!
The only ones who are benefiting from our health care system are the insurance companies!

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“I practice medicine too and the re-imbursement will be so bad that NO one will be a physician”

This is unfortunately true. One of the main problems stems from the cost of medical education currently. Nobody is going to sign up for 150,000 in loans if there is no prospect of being able to pay them back. I don’t think many people today go into medicine looking to get rich, those days have long passed. However, the compensation we receive should be proportional to the hours we work, years of training we have put ourself through, etc… Getting reimbursed poorly for a complex surgical procedure doesn’t cut it and is highly inappropriate. There may come a time when someone presents at 2am with appendicitis and it may prove difficult to find a surgeon to take the case, because taking home $50 frankly is just not worth it; especially in todays era of frivolous lawsuits against healthcare workers lingering in the air.

Medicine will likely turn into a specialty where only the rich will be able to afford medical school, thus preventing many of the brightest students from even applying. Which quite honestly is sad (I myself come from a low-income family and am terrified I will spend the next 50 years paying off loans).

That being said, I wouldn’t pick any other field to have a career. Nothing even comes close to the excitment of telling a patient, “your tumor is out” or “your father/mother/brother/sister is going to be ok.” That is why most of us went into medicine. It’s amazingly gratifying going home each night knowing that I’ve helped someone; somedays the save is bigger than others, but regardless I am thankful eveyday to have a job like I do.

I think something must be done to lower the cost of medical education. I also believe that compensation for physicians needs to be appropriate for the service provided (i.e reading routine radiology films should not reimburse on par with surgical procedures or complex office visits). Something must be done to limit the ability to file frivolous lawsuits against physicians/nurses/PAs etc. Much of the “cost” of medicine passed to consumers comes from “defense medicine,” many such test would have never been ordered had we not had to perform CYA moves.

are you crazy ? who the heck said anything about the new health care laws ?
you republicans are all the same.

Yeah, let’s get some stupid doctors in there who don’t care about the money. I say you get what you pay for. The cost and time that is involved in becoming a doctor is huge. I suppose all that feel doctors make too much money are they themselves giving out free or cheap services or are contributing to their community somehow without charge. I don’t think so… I also suppose that if they had the intelligence or means to make a lot of money they would not do it. Again I don’t so….

Yea, I think doctors should practice medicine because they should be “nice”. If they want to do stupid things like pay their mortgages, pay for their education, raise a family or other dumb things then they should get a real job at a factory or gas station during their spare time. You go Obama. Show them how fast we can “change” into a third world country.

Oh, almost forgot: “It’s Bush’s fault!!!”

Volounteer firefighters (I, as well as about 70% of all firefighters across North America) don’t get paid much. I make at my regular 8 – 5 job in about one day what I make all year as a volounteer firefighter. Go ahead, ask me what gives me the most gratification?

I am a firefighter first. Pay or no pay.

Knox Bundy has it spot on. Too bad more people don’t subscribe to our philosophy.

Joe Cannuck

Too bad Obama didn’t get the Single Payor as it was his 1st choice that the President originally wanted..

I agree with Phil 100%
We needed a single-payer plan———– but the Senate kept changing what the President truly wanted for the USA.
senators and congress was paid off by private insurance people and Drug manufacturers.

The cost of medical school needs to be changed before this is even considered. Have you any idea how much that costs students?!?

Whatever happens you need a healthcare system. It works excellently in the most of Europe. The idea of a first world country without proper healthcare is laughable. The US will eventually get one, so might as well be now, at least then you still have a reasonable economy in which to test and implement it. (The world future isn’t as bright as everyone thinks, it’s more of a dull shine)

Rob, we are not required to carry car insurance. We can live perfectly well, and not be in infringement of the law if we choose to never have car insurance. All it requires is that we don’t own and drive a car. The problem with mandatory health insurance is that now my choice is to either purchase health insurance or be levied a fine. (I suppose I could end my life and I wouldn’t need health insurance, but that’s not a feasible option) The government can only regulate action (driving a car), not inaction (failure to commit suicide).

“obamacare” has NOTHING to do with reimbursement…the insurance companies will continue to determine that…i’m a reimbursement specialist for an ambulatory infusion center, so, yes, i do know what i’m talking about.

I had a heart transplant 15 yrs ago.Insurance through my job wouldn’t cover me and neither would any other insurance company. I don’t have $700,000 for the surgery to pay for it. Luckily a deal was reached with my former insurance company. Now it just costs me about $40,000 to keep me alive. Good ol USA health insurance companies!

I absolutely love the customer support for this website. No way to contact them at all. I made a post in response to Knox Bundy,s post at the top about 30 minutes ago and it still isn’t being shown.

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This kind of reply to this article is so completely out of line, i don’t even know where to begin. It’s an article about a guy who survives a freak tumor. So the first thought should be “good for him!” But you, Dr. Pete, go right to politics and how as a doctor YOU won’t make enough money. Your response is absurd, selfish, self-interested, and not even related to the article.
You clearly have no interest in HEALTH care, why not just go make your money on wall street and leave the CARE part to someone who actually, y’know, cares.

Wow, brilliant ! So you go to how many years of school, difficult school that few can handle, and then you have how much debt ? Then the main reason for enduring this is to help people ? Don’t you think a person who takes this on is entitled to compensation for their risks and efforts ? I want a Doctor who is well trained and educated. Unless you can get Obama to pay for all of that, then the person is entitled to their compensation. A good Doctor does it to earn a living and help people.

These are actually common tumours. A very high percent of women (if not all women) have these tumours, they are called fibroids and often they are calcified and massive, they dont remove them if its a women as so many have them, even if its causing problems. Because its a man, the media make a big deal about it.

My wife has gone through this same exact thing as mentioned above.
She had a tumor between her shoulder blades that she could feel moving under her skin. She had it since she was in junior high school.
When the tumor was removed it weighed 30 pounds and had tentacles and was moving on its own.
The Doctor said it was a lypoma tumor.
The only other thing that she was told is that they shipped it to the Mayo Clinic.
I do not believe this to be a common tumor it seems that these things whatever they are, are more of a life form of some type than a tumor. I have also been informed that Dr’s are instructed to keep quiet about things like this.. Anyone else have any ideas?

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Wow! What a horrible thing to have growing inside of a human being! I think we should all spend a little more time focusing on the possible causes of “alien” calcified tumors, in women and in men. If the previous writer’s wife’s tumor was merely “shipped off to the Mayo Clinic,” never ti be mentioned again, I cannot help but be even more concerned. Is there a possible environmentsl cause? Are these actually parasitic in nature? Is it somehow related to the creatures growing inside the mouths of fish caught in New Jersey? Is it related to the jet fuel being found in the breast milk of so many Chicago mothers? This is is not political, it is simply freaky, frightening, and fully in need of accurate investigation and thorough removal from our bodies! How can something as hard as concrete grow tentacles? Come on, the answers must not continue to be so vague.

Well the problem with socialism is that actually you have a bunch of State capitalists who become as much corrupt and disconnected from the people than in a place like the US. That seems to be the situation with China, hence why there are so many popular uprisings these days and high-level bureaucrats sleeping with big foreign corporate execs.

…but aren’t we supposed to talk about tentacle Alien monsters?

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[...] CBS 13 in Sacramento reports a vice principal had a soccer-ball size “alien” tumor that had been growing for at least a decade. The husband and father of two named the tumor “Gill” and made shirts bearing the motto “Kill Gill,” based on the movie posters for the film “Kill Bill.” [...]

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It’s … “too” busy…

There is no “god”-wise up.

[...] What? I’m just stating the obvious here: Like part of the storyline from the 1979 sci-fi classic “Alien,” a California man discovered he had a large, tentacled, alien-type tumor growing inside him. After Josh Abken complained of back pains last year, a subsequent X-ray revealed something both frightening and bizarre, CBS 13 reports. [...]

The tumors escaped from the ship that crashed at Roswell. Most of them were captured soon afterward but several managed to infiltrate our society. Our Government estimates that there could be several hundred thousand of these things living in unsuspecting hosts while they wait for the rest of their race to join them. The good news is that these aliens will be providing free health care to all.

Thanks Christhi, for keeping your eye on the topic.

Ed, your wife had a lipoma (note correct spelling if you want to look up more information). It’s a fatty tumor, benign (i.e. NOT cancer), and no, it’s not the same thing as mentioned above. It’s actually quite common (my mother had one) and is usually removed surgically if it grows large enough to be annoying. A tumor is a tumor, not, repeat NOT some kind of alien life form! A tumor (any tumor) is formed from a person’s own cells, gone wrong. Doctors are certainly not “instructed to keep quiet” about such a common lump.
(a reply from a cancer researcher, who wishes doctors would be more clear about communicating with patients, and that patients would take the time to be sure they got their information straight)

Dear tb – this was not the same as a fibroid, which is a benign (NOT cancerous) tumor of the uterus. This man did not have a uterus
Different kinds of tumors can become calcified. Different kinds of tumors can become massive, especially the benign ones. This article did not identify the specific type of tumor this man had at all.

I don’t know if you caught this, but Obama campaigned on continuing the war in Afghanistan. He was against the war in Iraq. Those are two different countries.

Holy misogynism fc!

fc, where did that come from … I think Anita had some good info, for a man or a woman, psycho or not.

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[...] I mean, the only thing worse than having worms in your body would be if you had some huge alien creature growing out of your spine. [...]

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really buddy

[...] “When Josh Abken told his doctor he was having persistent back pain about a year ago, the doctor took…. “You think you got a serious muscle pull or something, [but] the doctor has that serious doctor face you see on TV,” Abken said. “They didn’t really know what was growing inside of me.” They named it Gill: A soccer-ball size “alien” tumor that had become as solid as a rock and even had growing tentacles. Abken and his family made shirts bearing the motto “Kill Gill,” based on the movie posters for the film “Kill Bill.” The husband and father of two said doctors told him the giant tumor was beginning to put pressure on his heart, shove his lungs out of position and even squash his stomach downward. It apparently had been growing for at least a decade.” w/ photo + video [...]

@Anita
Dogs can get a form of cancer that consists essentially of foreign canine cells living in their blood.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canine_transmissible_venereal_tumor

So, no. Not all tumors are of the hosts cells.

gross. I need to get my head checked.

Melanoma is often a process and growths are the end result of these procedure. Just becoming less or detaching the tumour does not solve the method that resulted in the growth. For you to cure …tumors