| Sick Man Guiliani's flip-flop on health insurance for kids.
In his campaign for president, Rudolph Giuliani keeps suggesting that his experience as a prostate cancer survivor makes him uniquely qualified to evaluate the American health care system. To judge from his recent pronouncements, the lesson he learned as a cancer patient is that America has the best health care system in the world. Indeed, Giuliani has implied that without it, he wouldn't have survived cancer. He thus sees little need, in his prescriptions for reform, for overhauling the system or greatly reducing the number of uninsured. What's odd about Giuliani's take is that it is diametrically opposed to what he said he learned from his prostate cancer in 2000, at the time of his actual diagnosis and treatment. Before his illness, Giuliani the Mayor resembled Giuliani the Presidential Candidate.
STILL FIGHTING: Prostate cancer survivor helps others with the disease
Larry Puccio beat prostate cancer 12 years ago, but he's still fighting the disease. Only now, he's doing it to help newly diagnosed men and survivors who need information and hope. The retired engineer joined a prostate cancer support group soon after his surgery in 1996 at Somerset Medical Center in Somerville. In 2005, he and his wife, Grace, moved from their Hillsborough home to the Holiday City South seniors development in Berkeley. Puccio decided to look for a new support group. He had an obligation to do so, he says in his quiet but measured way.
Mayor Littlefield Ready To Resume Full Schedule After Cancer Surgery
Mayor Ron Littlefield said Wednesday he is feeling well and is ready to resume a full schedule after undergoing cancer surgery.
He said he waited a long time for a health checkup, and he urges others to get regular health tests, especially men for prostate cancer.
"I am proud to be a cancer survivor," said the 61-year-old mayor.
Open Letter from Mayor Ron Littlefield
Thanks to all for a very memorable season.
Although I would have preferred to keep it all quiet, it is pretty well known that I have been dealing with prostate cancer. Interestingly, Chattanooga Police Chief Freeman Cooper has been traveling along that same sensitive path and following pretty much the same schedule of surgery and recovery. I have always admired those who earned the title cancer survivor, but I never really wanted to join the club.
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