teammates. i was diagnosed with cancer in 2013. when you re diagnosed, you go, me? i don t have cancer. i m 27, i m young, i m healthy. there is no way i have cancer. then the cards started coming in, the team started coming up to me. i would get videos from games that i missed of, hey, coach, we won this one for you, and you could just see the excitement on their faces, like i know we can t fix what s been diagnosed, but we can show you that we re here to support you. oh. it helps remind you that what you re teaching them on the court really is life. they re like, you re part of our team and we re here to pick you up. it s amazing. cancer is just a small part of who you are. a cancer diagnosis doesn t necessarily mean death. my name is jacqueline harvey and i m a has-been hero.
rollout? 12 million people today, neil, have health security that they wouldn t have had had the health security law had not taken place. you re making it sound like 12 million new people have this. that s not the case. a good number of them who never had insurance we re down 6 million. 6 million fewer americans have health insurance. i don t know about that statistic. i do know that there are 12 million people that have now been documented to have signed up and received health insurance policies as a result of the affordable care act and to the point about those who are getting coverage that they don t need, i don t have cancer, but i m paying for insurance policies that will cover my cancer if i should ever get it. so it s one of those things just like when you drive a car, if you don t drive on the freeway you have coverage for driving on freeway. that s what you get, you get broad coverage whether it s
news is a very nice lady. the only thing is she needs to wear a wig or grow some more hair. i m not sure if she s a cancer patient. what about letting a male have waist long hairdo the news, about what that? later, rhonda responded saying i m the black lady to which you are referring. i m sorry you don t like my ethnic hair. and no, i don t have cancer. it is it about what being american is about. i hope you can embrace that. she joins me like from shreveport. joining us sound on is melissa harris-perry, host of nbc s melissa harris-perry show. rhonda lee, your response is reasonable and perhaps kind and thanked them. explain, why did the explanation fire you. did they explain it properly is? was it just about this response issue? well, initially, i was i
stopped in his tracks by a routine blood test. she says, your alkaline phosphotates number is high. she explains that it s a test that vaguely suggests something s wrong with your liver or bones. another test, my liver is cleared. she says on what seems like a whim, why don t you get a full-body bone scan. reporter: that test revealed a growth on his left femur, the thigh bone. but it was also the bone he broke while riding his treasured bike when he was just 5 years old. his doctors were not concerned. she s like oh, it looks like nothing. don t worry. it s not like you have cancer or something, she says to me. reporter: boy. so i m like, i repeated that a lot in the coming don t worry, i say to my wife, don t worry, i say to my parents. don t worry, i say to myself, i don t have cancer. reporter: but sometimes people have a hunch. his wife, linda, told me she had been worried for months. a spouse, as a parent, you know when something is just
routine blood test. she says, you re alkaline number is high. she explains that it s a test that vaguely suggests something s wrong with your liver or bones. another test, my liver is cleared. she says on what seems like a whim, why don t you get a full-body bone scan. reporter: that test revealed a growth on his left femur, the thigh bone. but it was also the bone he broke while riding his treasured bike when he was just 5 years old. his doctors were not concerned. he was like, oh, you know, looks like nothing. don t worry. it s not like you have cancer or something, she says to me. reporter: boy. so i m like, i repeated that a lot. don t worry, i say to my myself, don t worry, i say to my parents. don t worry, i say to myself, i don t have cancer. reporter: but sometimes people have a hunch. his wife linda told me she had been worried for months. a spouse, as a parent, something is just off. and he just didn t look himself.