Faces of Health Care Debate Point to New Law's Complexity New York Times
Natoma Canfield of Medina, Ohio, sent a letter to President Obama about no longer being able to afford her health coverage, and he read it aloud to a group of insurance executives at the White House. Then Ms. Canfield learned she had leukemia, helping Mr. Obama illustrate the life-and-death stakes of the often mind-numbing policy fight.
Marcelas Owens , an 11-year-old boy from Seattle, whose mother could not get some treatment for lack of insurance and died at age 27 from pulmonary hypertension , met Senator Patty Murray , Democrat of Washington, at a rally and ended up by the president’s side at the bill-signing ceremony. “I don’t want any other kids to go through the pain our family has gone through,” Marcelas said.
And Molly Secours, a filmmaker from Nashville, who battled uterine cancer , nearly lost her home because of medical bills — even though she had health insurance . Told that she would need a radical hysterectomy , chemotherapy and radiation treatment, Ms. Secours said, “I was consumed with the fear that I’ll have to declare bankruptcy.”
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