Teresa Heinz Kerry talks with cancer patients

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Teresa Heinz Kerry talks with cancer patients
By TIM BOOTH
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER


On Thursday, Heinz Kerry toured a Seattle Cancer Care Alliance facility on the campus of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. After meeting with patients undergoing cancer treatment, Heinz Kerry participated in a health care round table with doctors and cancer survivors from the Seattle area.

She spoke of a need to revamp the current health care system and to focus on prevention.

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When visiting patients, Heinz Kerry spoke softly and asked specific questions. Mary Hermans agreed to meet with her despite being scheduled to have a painful bone-marrow biopsy Thursday afternoon "because I would support anyone who has a chance to beat Bush. And I like her."

Heinz Kerry was critical of the Bush administration's approach to health care and the current health care system. If changes are not made, she said, jobs will be lost from companies struggling with health care costs.

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