Medical expenses
Durbin lucky he didn’t have Obamacare
By Dr. Richard Benkin Saturday, August 14, 2010
Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois is the Democrats’ Number Two guy in the Senate; and if Harry Reid goes down to defeat as many expect, he will be Number One. 
As Majority Whip and one of President Barak Obama’s most vocal supporters, Durbin was also a leading exponent of Obamacare. We might wonder, however, if he would hold the same position if he did not have the “special” health care policies he and his colleagues will continue to enjoy while we are left with their gift of Obamacare.



The Chicago Tribune reports that Durbin recently had a tumor removed from his stomach at the highly prestigious (and expensive) University of Chicago Hospital: “a mostly benign growth that, while highly curable, can go undetected for years and become malignant.” It turns out that his was detected during a routine medical exam; no doubt by a prestigious and costly Washington physician. And just to make sure the doc did not err, Durbin had one of those very expensive CT scans.

All of that expensive medicine might be available to the political elite, but not to us peons who will live under the health care system Durbin and his colleagues have foisted on us, but refuse to take for themselves. Now we know why. Moreover, at age 65, Durbin is “about average” for such things as this, according to one medical expert quoted in the Tribune piece. Some people (read: the rest of us) walk around with these tumors “for years,” that same expert said. Lucky for Durbin he did not have Obamacare; not so lucky for Americans who will.

We are not as crass as New Hampshire Democrat Keith Halloran, who suggested that former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin should have been on a recent plane crash. Instead, we wish the Senator well and, no doubt with him, praise an American system of medical care that is superior enough to save lives proactively—at least until it is replaced by the Obamanation Durbin and his Democrat colleagues have forced on America’s common folk