Two-Time Cancer Survivor, Aged-Out of Family’s Health Plan, Tells Senators: “Take Heed!” |
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| By: Teddy Partridge Saturday November 21, 2009 1:14 pm | |
Shelly Dockery, a two-time cancer survivor in Little Rock, has aged-out of her family’s health plan. Despite a $20,000 bill from her cancer recurrence, her family still helps her with her cancer screenings because she’s too old to be on their policy and can’t get her own insurance.
Shelly shares with Eve Gittelson her message for her United States Senators: "Take heed of this need you see all around here today…. I just hope they take that to heart and make the right decision tonight."
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It just amazes me to think that this vibrant young woman is a two-time cancer survivor but she can’t get health insurance and still needs to rely on her family to help her out, even though she has aged out of their family plan.
Really, there is something very very wrong in America.
America is run by a government of the corporation, by the corporation, for the corporation.
Much of what’s wrong is on display on C-SPAN 2 all day today.
I’m assuming Scarecrow is referring to whatever happened in the Senate today – I was glad I had to work and would miss most of it.
Teddy Partridge you are en fuego my dahlin’ – after all these months of focusing on the action in the two chambers, your reporting has reminded me of what all that focus was for in the first place and I’m weeping -
Hey there! Many thanks to Eve Gittelson for her superb on-scene journalism. Proof that folks will tell their story if anyone bothers to ask nicely. And yet another example of our profoundly broken media, who could all be there if they wanted to.