Thanks for sharing, Maimah. Also worth noting, in today's Los Angeles Times:
"South Carolina has cut treatment for low-income women under 40 with breast or cervical cancer and stopped providing nutritional supplements for people with kidney failure.
"In southern Nevada, cancer patients without health coverage no longer have a place to get chemotherapy after the state's largest public hospital stopped providing outpatient oncology services."
Read the full article, "Struggling states cut healthcare for poor before Obama can bolster coverage"
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You make a great point, Maimah - it's one thing to get "technical" info. from a healthcare professional manning a hotline. It's another to get a virtual hug, words of wisdom (born of experience), and encouragement from someone who's been down the cancer road. There's nothing—NOTHING—as helpful as the support you get from a fellow survivor. I, too, know nothing of NY's budget constraints, and I'm sure they're considerable. But if they believe a hotline staffed by professionals fulfills the same function as a hotline of survivors, then they're simply misguided. Thanks for bringing this info. to the site— PJH