Aware of 'no options,' woman dies fighting for medical coverage [View all]
Tomorrow will mark 15 years since I was diagnosed with cancer. If my husband were to lose his job, our current health insurance, which is not even close to the best, would run $1,200+ a month. Someone should have been there to tell this woman that she had options. How sad.
There will be no options at all if Romney takes the White House.
"Leslie Elder was always a fighter. But in a message to a friend in the waning days of her life, she seemed exhausted.
The note, written at a time of spiritual darkness, suggested defeat after a decades-long struggle for medical coverage.
"I honestly don't know how much more I can endure," Elder wrote earlier this year in a Facebook message to her friend Liz Jacobs. "I am fighting for (Medicaid) and disability. I can't work I sit in bed I cry a lot. I am still fighting for healthcare and still fighting foreclosure.
"I am so upset but perhaps it was not meant to be. I don't know anything anymore," said Elder, who died in July at age 63 without insurance coverage..."
More: http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/01/health/elder-insurance/index.html?hpt=hp_c1
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