BREAKING!! John McCain has Brain Cancer

doo2 wrote:

Don't believe the MSM wrote:

It doesn't "give" him insurance, it provides a subsidy (like the large number of USA people on Medicaid, Medicare, Medi-...).

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/04/17/do-members-of-congress-pay-for-100-percent-of-their-health-insurance/

i assume he has tricare

He is 80. His primary insurance would be Medicare.

From someone who campaigned for Ron Paul in 2007-2008, Rest in Piss.

Treatment vs No Treatment wrote:

hey ho wrote:

My brother is an oncologist. He said probably 3 months for him.

Huh? Then why would he go full bore with radiation & chemo? Aggressive radiation & chemo at his age would be brutal just to live for 3 months?

I don't know dude. Ask an oncologist. Or McCain himself.

Ouch!

Given the likely poor prognosis he should consider a low calorie ketogenic diet, see e.g.

http://www.lifeextension.com/protocols/cancer/brain-tumor/page-03

Might not help, but not much downside.

McCain goes home devastated! Just kidding. He was well-respected as one of the more moderate politicians around. He had a real chance at the presidency before selecting Sarah Palin to run with him. Now Lindsay Graham will be the only conservative left to openly call out Trump on his shenanigans.

" It's unfortunately likely the end of the road for him but he lived a long life and got to see a lot."

For example, that all expenses paid vacation in Vietnam.

It sounds like he has a hard fight in front of him. He should resign from the senate. There is no way he will be able to function normally for at least several months, if ever.

I've always thought that U.S. senator must be the best job in the world in that almost no one ever leaves until they die or lose an election. I think Strom Thurmond was nearly 100 before he died. Robert Byrd was in his eighties. There are currently 30 U.S. senators who are 70 or older and 2/3 of the senate is 60 and older.

xbn wrote:

explains a lot

Ron Paul 2008 wrote:

Rest in Piss.

H. Hilton wrote:

like that all expenses paid vacation in Vietnam

Some of the people on this board are showing how truly classless they are. Politics aside (especially considering how moderate of a politician he is), and having witnessed one of my teammate's father die from a glioblastoma, this is one of the worst diagnoses that a person can have. In the next few months he will undergo therapies that will leave him feeling like crap, he will likely lose motor control in a number of his extremities, will develop slurred speech, etc. To make light of this is abhorrent. God speed John McCain and all those dealing with cancer. As Robert Klein once said to Seinfeld about if anything was off limits in comedy, he stated "If you do a joke about cancer, it had better be good".

you must be a hoot at parties

@comedyrelief wrote:

you must be a hoot at parties

This isn't a party.

Comeback kid makes necessary vote to start ACA repeal.