This is a heartbreaking example of how pathetic the US healthcare system can be. We can spend billions of dollars waging an illegal and immoral war, but can’t come up with a solution to  take care of our sick and injured.

Mark Windsor looks exhausted. For a week he’s been undergoing radiation treatment on a cancerous tumor in his neck. A metal rod fused to his spine keeps his head stable. His muscles there are gone, the result of multiple failed surgeries to rid him of his disease. . . The radiation Mark Windsor is receiving will only prolong his life, not save it.

“If I probably had gotten some good treatment several years ago I probably would have been cured,” Windsor said from his home in Atlanta, Georgia. 

The reason he didn’t get care sooner — he couldn’t afford it, because he didn’t have insurance. Windsor, a self-employed photographer, has had bone cancer — a rare chondrosarcoma — for more than 25 years. At 52, that’s almost half his life. While he’s found help from a few generous doctors, his efforts to survive have often been desperate. And now he’s learned, largely in vain.

Read the full CNN article here.