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Beauty editors know what you ve always known. allure reader s choice award winning brand, 12 years running. olay regenerist. ageless. let s go now to a mother s story about her late son s battle with cancer and health insurance. joy schmidt wrote a letter to the tribune about how her son battled the disease once and then beat it, but because of the pre-existing conditions he was unable to afford rising premiums. when he relapsed he did not have insurance. joining me now is joyce schmidt. thank you for being here and sharing your family s story, painful as it is. i spoke to you in the commercial break and said let s hope people sit up and listen. tell me what happened to your son, why he didn t have insurance. oh, thank you so much, alex. well, my amazing son was a healthy, happy 26-year-old when ....
To anybody. you cannot punish people for having been sick. you cannot throw people into a separate pool and when it runs out of money, which it will, those people will not want to go to the doctor. they don t want to find out they have hundreds of thousands of dollars if they want to stay alive so they pretend they re going to be okay, and many of them will die. and congressmen who say things like you can t die by not having life insurance, are people who live a good life don t have a pre-existing condition. that is a statement you re attributed to the talk about people don t die as a result of not having health insurance. right. joyce, our condolences to you. eight long years. you said your son was valiant. i can also say he was very handsome. oh, my goodness, he was a wonderful, wonderful man, and i so appreciate you listening to our story. it means a lot to all of us. glad to do that for you. ....