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With The Takeaway for another round table discussion on the health care system are two people with long-term illnesses: Robert Groth of Oconomowoc, Wisconsin and Sid Whigham of Lincoln, Nebraska.
Part three of our week-long series of round tables brings to the discussion a group likely too-familiar with the health care system: people with long-term illnesses. Robert Groth, of Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, has multiple sclerosis. Sid Whigham of Lincoln, Nebraska, had one of his legs amputated due to complications from diabetes and a blood clot; he has also been battling blood cancer for the last two years.