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Purchase Zone 3 Tower Ad Zone 4 Tower Ad Zone 5 Tower Ad Zone 6 Tower Ad President Bush, Meet Lorraine By Barbara Ehrenreich April 2006 Issue Here’s the news that rocked my little world this month: We got a message that a family friend, let’s call her Lorraine, who was in an ICU, barely able to breathe on her own.

In the last few weeks, there’d been some mumblings about “not feeling a hundred percent,” but no hint of anything seriously wrong.

The diagnosis came back in a couple of days: fourth-stage breast cancer, which has spread to a number of other organs, including her lungs.

If you know anything at all about breast cancer “staging,” you know there is no fifth stage.

Lorraine has no health insurance.

We didn’t know that.

In fact, we’d been content to believe that her consulting...

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