Profiting out of misery

I visited with someone at NCI today. The cancer institute is base on making money from your pain. They not only charge you a ridiculous (squared) amount more but add to your fear by dramatizing the whole process. To protect privacy, I can't tell you how I heard.

Why is it that our world is built on people making profit out of someone else's misery? Have you no heart but to add salt to the wound? And yet people give me a side ward glance and say 'this is life'. This is life! Where injustice is part of life and people continue to be selfish. Heartless, we cry. Yet our voice is seldom heard. What can we do, we ask defensively. Those who don't have the right information, in the end, will suffer even more. We are victims of the society's system because you can't beat it. It's a cruel world out there and you've heard that a million times only to realize once more how true that is. What can we do? Get informed, I say. And spread the word. May goodwill and justice prevail.

And the next time you have cancer (not that I'm hoping or saying you will but just to know), look up the National Cancer Society. Perhaps you'll find more hope in the dark there. One that does not include bankrupting you.