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Would you not volunteer help to them if they said those things and are now suffering from cancer?

Yes of course families help each other no matter the previous bad choices.

On a societal level we try to help people with cancer even if they don't have health insurance. That's what Medicaid is. Unfortunately that only helps save them from death; destitution probably feels almost as bad and we don't have an easy solution to that.




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