JOEY KENNEDY: Does anybody really believe we should just leave
our cold, cruel, costly health care system alone? Really?  Joey
Kennedy | By Joey Kennedy | The Birmingham News Email the author
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September 15, 2009 at 3:00 PM  See, here's what I don't
understand. Some people actually think we DO NOT need changes in
our health care system. Any changes. They're happy as punch to
let people who can't afford insurance to pay retail prices at
the hospital and doctor, or go broke or even die for a lack of
coverage.  I have a personal story about this.  My mother worked
her whole life, never making more than about $25,000 a year. She
lost a job and her insurance; when she got a new job, she wanted
to buy health insurance, but she was turned down, time and time
again, because she'd had a tumor removed from her stomach a
decade before.  That tumor was called "pre-cancerous," but now
Mom was too much of a risk for a health insurance company to
bother with. When