My mother in law died of pancreatic cancer, she had it for one year. You are absolutely right about the pain, it is unfathomable.

The problem with pancreatic cancer is that it’s usually diagnosed late because it doesn’t tend to cause symptoms until it gets big. If you manage to catch it early, it’s not an automatic death sentence. Glioblastoma on the other hand is crazy aggressive and not amenable to cure. The treatment - which aims to extend…

You have to travel to the wall and bill Mexico.

I think that’s true of everything he says, numerical or otherwise. He listens to himself talk and seems genuinely surprised by what he says half the time.

Yes. There are always outliers on survival times, but ultimately they will die of this disease unless some other incidental illness takes them first.

On the other hand someone I know pretty miraculously survived pancreatic cancer. It’s been years. Sometimes it happens.

I didn’t see any snark, just a slight correction. I suppose there is the rare person who beats the odds and lives slightly longer, but most people—zero hope.

Trump makes shit up. That’s where he gets his numbers.

First: Fuck cancer forever.

I’m hoping that old DJT takes too big a snort of nose candy and has an aneurysm. Mike Pence then comes in, sees what he think is Pixie Stick dust on the desk and licks it up while Mother isn’t looking.

The doctor will pay you!

Dump in 48 hours: repeal and replace, let it fail, just repeal and replace later, repeal and replace.

I read once that God answers all prayers, but the answer is usually “no.”

I actually don’t think they would be. The CBO people generally try to give only data, with as little as possible fluff or conjecture. Their reports are thorough (here’s the report in question, it’s a short one at 19 pages long), and admit that the deficit would decrease over 2017-2026 by $473B (which is what the…

These idiots have been bitching about Obamacare since before it was introduced in 2010, yet in EIGHT YEARS they never bothered to come up with anything better.

personally i think it’s entirely missing the point to characterize this as a personal effort directed at thumbing their collective noses at obama. they’ll present it that way because it appeases their slavering racist base, but it’s the same thing republicans have wanted for the last thirty years, at least - less…

Meanwhile, at the luncheon today with the GOP senators, Trump said that a new healthcare law would drive down premiums by 60-70%

I think Republicans failing to repeal the ACA is about as close as we can hope to come to getting a win the next few years, unfortunately.

Hello, God? It’s me, spike. If you’re up there, can you give us a win down here? I agree, we suck as a species, but some of us are trying to do the right thing. So, just this once, can you cut us a break? Please?

Trump and the GOP big wigs are just making it clear that they have no plan whatsoever to make anything better, but simply wants to erase everything the previous administration put into place.