February 2012
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How the Affordable Care Act Has Helped My Family
Originally posted at MomsRising.org:
Our family’s medical history includes our father’s death due to a heart attack and stroke in 1990. Alzheimer’s disease is present in both our mother’s side and father’s side — with three grandparents currently suffering from the disease. Also present in our medical records is arthritis in several aunts. Many private health insurance companies did not want to...
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"Tears of Relief"
Originally posted as part of “Light at the end of the tunnel,” at susiemadrak.com:
I just got off the phone with someone from the insurance company and they’re going to give me a January 1 effective date for the state pre-existing condition insurance pool created under Obamacare — which means I can have the gall bladder surgery once it kicks in. I don’t mind telling you: tears of...