Marlene Jennings: Time to pause as I confront cancer again

This latest setback has given me a front-row view of our health-care system. It's the tireless medical professionals who prop it up.

My interest in the state of our health-care system ramped up in late 2009, when I was diagnosed with a condition that led to legal blindness but which, after multiple surgeries and treatments, ended in 2011 with sight successfully restored in one eye. Read More