Truly sorry to hear of your issue, Raven, but perhaps you can afford to pay for the treatment you are getting, however it is being paid for. Persons such as myself, without the money or training to reach for the next rung of the economic ladder, would be unable to afford the kind of pricing they were battering about in the above article. It would be a choice of cremation or burial plot, not a choice of being alive or not. $200,000 for a life-saving treatment is far out of the average American's price range, even if it saves their life. It would be trading personal freedom for a slave's collar, spending the last of your days trying to pay off a huge weight of debt. And that would be IF the company was willing to let you pay it off over time, instead of demanding the money up-front, or see your way out the door, Jack. Would this company be willing to foot the bill for a poor, single-mom, black woman in Detroit? Or would they 'decline' to save her life for lack of profit?