"Pamper yourself," said Tony Snow to Robin Roberts re her cancer treatments on GMA today. [View All]

To her credit, Robin started talking about the cancer patients who can't afford a test to diagnose their cancer much less take care of themselves the way people (like herself and Snow) who have good health insurance can.

Then Tony starts saying that "we've got to find a way to get testing for people" in poor areas. Colonoscopies, for instance.

Then the subject magically changes and Tony is tearing up, talking about people who loved him.

All I could think of is a woman I worked with who cannot get health insurance because she is too poor but not poor enough for Medicaid. She and her husband have had to forego health insurance. He wound up in emergency room care for a heart attack a few months later and nearly died...

I'm sorry, Tony. REally sorry that you have cancer. Even sorrier that you cannot see the problem staring you in the face. I don't wish ill on anyone, but I can wish them enlightenment. And so I do for you, Tony. More than you know.