[psunavy03]

My point is they're tilting at windmills talking about "transformative" healthcare as if Jimmy's death was some indictment of the US healthcare system that could be used for whatever partisan ends that poster wants.

Jimmy had functionally unlimited resources at his disposal. He just ran into the inconvenient fact that eventually, we all still die. That should be humbling for all of us, not an excuse to go on a rant about US healthcare. He was lucky enough to be a person who would have had access to the best care money could buy . . . but it turned out money still can't buy immortality. Again, that should be humbling, not an excuse to "fight the man." At least he wasn't stupid enough to pull a Steve Jobs and try to fight cancer with fruit juice.

I got introduced to his music when I went on a High Adventure trip with the Boy Scouts to the Florida Keys with my dad in the 90s. I won't claim his catalog is Beethoven, but it was a fun bond to have with my Mom and Dad. And when now and then he dropped the cheeseball "island" act, he wrote some very heartfelt ballads. I'm sad he's gone, because he brought some joy to my family over the years. But when it's someone's time, it's their time, and I'll take more time to be glad he had the musical career he did than I will to hijack his death for a policy rant.