As one who lost a loved one (my oldest son, to be exact) to cancer not so long ago, as one who saw late diagnoses due to inadequate access to healthcare (and in one case, death from an infinitely curable cancer - Wilm's due to that late diagnosis), as one who saw children in long hospital stays without their parents who needed to work in order to keep their healthcare access and whose places of employ were, shall we say, less than accomodating, and as one who saw first hand the financial distress such illnesses cause (in many cases resulting in bankruptcy, loss of home and worse) in America, I have no pity for a wealthy American like Tony Snow, who in his minority status as a man of wealth, suffered none of these depradations typical of those Americans of more modest means who must endure such hardship.

Wish cancer on anyone? Heaven's no! But if you expect me to, having seens what I've seen, have empathy for a human being who has done his best too make lives more unbearable for the most vulnerable, the least of my brother, I have to say you're asking the wrong person.

Fai de bèn a Bertrand, te lou rendra en cagant