Lance Armstrong... greatest doper there was or ever will be

My father (not rich or powerful) survived cancer in the US, in fact I am coninvced that it was because he was in the US that he survived, had he been in the UK, they may not have even caught it in time.

If his health insurance had just run out though would he have had a friendly CEO to put pressure on the company to pay up anyway? That's the point. If Armstrong was lucky then that was a big part of it. You'd have thought Armstrong's experience of facing an early death because he had no insurance might have made him a great campaigger on the subject. Sadly not.