Cancer patients in Saudi Arabia are now entitled to a 50% discounts on domestic air and land travel in the kingdom, according to this, which is the same discount that seniors and people with disabilities are entitled to. I've never heard of this before ... is this common practice in North America? Regardless of whether it is or not, it got me thinking. Some discounts on the exorbitant parking rates at the hospital when my dad was ill would have been appreciated. Joking aside, I sympathize with cancer patients and think they deserve any break they can get but on the other hand, cancer isn't by definition a disability--it's a disease and if we're offering discounts on a disease, why stop with cancer? What about people with HIV, Chrohn's or Diabetes?
What do you think?
1. I would have appreciated a few discounts while going through cancer without insurance. Of course a discounted parking space would have done me no good once my car got reposessed, because I had to spend my last cent on medical care.
Regards,
Richard Day Gore
Posted at 9:30AM on Jun 1st 2007 by richard day gore