Kansas City's Latino community lobbies hospitals for cancer care: 'It's like they close the door'...

A new campaign is pressing Kansas City-area health systems to find cancer care solutions for people who can't get insurance because of their immigration status. "We have the same right to fight for our lives as anyone," says one cancer patient.
Doctors at AdventHealth inserted a port into Armando Miranda’s chest, readying him for possibly lifesaving treatment.  Miranda has Stage 3 colon cancer. 

Advent’s doctors made the diagnosis, also telling the 55-year-old that the cancer had begun to spread.   

Finally, he knew the cause of six months of severe diarrhea, chills and fever. Miranda’s exhaustion had become debilitating, making it nearly impossible for him to keep working as a mechanic.

But AdventHealth — where Miranda sought help in early August when he began expelling blood — also delivered other news. 

Maybe you should return to Mexico to seek care, Miranda said he was told when it became apparent that he didn’t have health insurance.