Dilbert Creator Taps Trump To Get Cancer Drug. Others Wish They Could, Too - Beritaja

Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, the agency joke comic strip, is pictured astatine activity successful 2006. Adams has metastatic prostate crab and he appealed to President Trump to thief prevention his life by solving a bureaucratic problem pinch his wellness insurance. It worked: His assignment is Tuesday. Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP

Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP

Like many, galore Americans, Scott Adams had wellness security problems.

But Adams — made celebrated first by his long-running Dilbert cartoon, and later for a racist rant connected YouTube — counts immoderate powerful group successful his societal media circle: President Trump, his boy Donald Trump Jr. and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

So Adams posted his title connected X, saying Kaiser of Northern California, his wellness insurer and attraction provider, had "dropped the ball" successful scheduling a process needed to treat his metastatic prostate cancer. Adams wrote he was going to inquire Trump to thief prevention his life, and he added: "I americium declining fast. I will inquire President Trump if he could get Kaiser of Northern California to respond and schedule it for Monday."

Donald Trump Jr. responded to the station connected X first, saying: "Going to make judge that my dada sees this."

Just aft 11 americium connected Sunday morning, Kennedy responded, saying, "Scott. How do I scope you? The President wants to help."

Later that day, President Trump posted a surface changeable of Adams' original station and responded "On it!" connected his favored societal media platform, Truth Social.

And connected Monday, Adams posted that he had an appointment to person the infusion he needed of the crab drug, Pluvicto, connected Tuesday.

"For context, I waited months for the drug, for illustration everyone else," Adams wrote. "But I deliberation my files sewage misplaced aliases thing and that glitch conscionable sewage corrected. Not sure."

The U.S. wellness attraction strategy is notoriously complex, confusing and expensive, and galore Americans person had likewise frustrating experiences arsenic Adams did. Few, though, person the societal media scope to enlist specified powerful helping hands.

"Our wellness strategy shouldn't beryllium 1 wherever we request the involution of the president aliases the HHS caput to measurement successful connected behalf of a high-profile governmental backer," said Anthony Wright, the executive head of Families USA, a wellness attraction defense organization.

Wright added that he is gratified Adams sewage the thief he needed and said it should beryllium disposable to all. "Glad the President is offering to do casework," Wright said, noting that national workers who do akin problem solving person been fired and navigators who thief group motion up for Affordable Care Act wellness security person been trim by 90%. Wright besides called retired the" "current shutdown complete the rumor of taxation credits that thief millions entree and spend wellness care."

BERITAJA reached retired to Kaiser for remark and they e-mailed this statement: "Mr. Adams' oncology squad is moving intimately pinch him connected the adjacent steps successful his crab care, which are already underway.

Since it was approved by the FDA 3 years ago, Kaiser Permanente's atomic medicine and aesculapian oncology experts person treated much than 150 patients pinch Lu-177 PSMA (Pluvicto) successful Northern California alone. We cognize this supplier and this disease."

Adams' acquisition drummed up a chorus of well-wishes online, arsenic good arsenic those who called retired the preferential curen he apparently got.

"There are Americans each complete America who are presently going done akin circumstances," wrote one X poster, responding to Kennedy's connection to thief Adams.

Another responded: "How about promoting UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE, for illustration the remainder of the Industrialized 1st World Nations, truthful EVERYONE could beryllium treated, not conscionable Celebrity & the Wealthy?"

In the shutdown wellness attraction conflict that started Oct. 1, about 24 cardinal Americans who bargain their security connected the ACA marketplaces will spot their premiums skyrocket — the mean scheme will double successful value — if Congress doesn't act. Democrats opportunity they will not reopen the authorities unless the taxation subsidies that bring down the costs are renewed. Republicans opportunity they will not talk renewing the subsidies until the authorities is reopened.