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Health reform, who needs it? Why pay for something that will never help you when you need it?

This is a case of life and death for a young woman. Her health insurance company doesn’t care about her “life”, because later this year her coverage will be canceled with the simple explanation that she has reached her “lifetime maximum benefits.”

She was only 15 years old, when she started chemotherapy for Ewing’s Sarcoma, a rare form of childhood cancer that attacks the bones. She lost her hair, had the cancerous bone in her pelvis removed, and then her lungs started to deteriorate.

She lived through her 16th year with an oxygen bottle her closest companion, as her lung function approached a mere 20% of normal capacity.

In May of 2007, she was only 17 years old, when she finally had a double lung transplant, to replace lungs killed by interstices lung disease, brought on by the chemotherapy which saved her from the bone cancer. Her name is Brittani.

If anybody thinks that the health care system in America does not need fixing, then they have been living in the dark for a long time. It’s an atrocity that profit margins of insurance companies come before an individual’s health and wellbeing in this country. The argument can be made that America has the best health care in the world, but only if you can afford it.

Brittani deserves better than this. We all deserve better than this.

Read Brittnai’s Story Here

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