In a perfect world, there would be no cancer. All children would be born perfect. We would all be healthy at birth and throughout our entire lives.
But this world comes with many perils; children are born with disabilities, men get prostate cancer, women get cervical and breast cancer. And those need tests to detect and treatments to cure.
It appears that Rep. Lance Harvell, R-Farmington, is unhappy about that; not about the perils themselves, but about having to pay for the tests.
I would remind Rep. Harvell, those pap smears he doesn’t want covered could save his wife’s life, or the life of the young woman who could become his daughter-in-law.
And those tests include prostate screening, and I am willing to pay my share of that for him.
Joanne Dunlap, Rangeley
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