How could a successful man with access to health care die of penumonia in the US at age 50?

Question

re: Bernie Mac

Answer 1

Maybe because no matter how rich or good your health care is, the ultimate factor of good health is how you live your own life. I hear that Bernie Mac was a smoker......

Edit: I know what Pneumonia is. Do YOU know what it means to be a smoker and not have normal lung capacity as it is and therefore when you are sick your body doesn't have the means to fight it off? Do YOU realize that he also had other diseases as well? Get a clue.

Answer 2

when its your time its your time.

i would suspect there was more to his medical problems than pneumonia but the world will never know because medical records are private... and thats how it should be.

Answer 3

Bernie Mac had many more problems. it is said that he had a collapsed lung, and lung cancer. He has been privately suffering for a while now.