Reply #6: The health-care disparity in this country is a frequent recurring topic at DU,& daily reality for... [View All]

[Hekate]

...many DUers.

If occasionally we stray from self-absorption or worry over our near and dear ones to discuss the plight of someone we admire who also happens to be much higher on the economic scale -- it doesn't mean we are suddenly less sensitive to the plight of those who have less.

Elizabeth Edwards is a friend here at DU. She is also going to die of this disease. She is confronting her fate gallantly -- but chances are very good indeed that she will not live to see her two youngest children grow to adulthood, or even out of high school.

It's right that we should care about that, and not show bias toward her due to her economic good fortune. She, too, is a member of this community.

Hekate