Death without health insurance
Regina Holliday’s mural shows her late husband, Fred, on his deathbed. When symptoms of his cancer first appeared, the couple did not have health insurance. (By Marcus Yam — The Washington Post)
Dana Milbank, in the Washington Post, writes:
Regina Holliday will always remember the day the Senate took up health-care reform seven weeks ago. It was the day her husband died.
Fred Holliday succumbed to kidney cancer at age 39. He probably had had the disease for years, but with no health insurance, he couldn’t afford the tests that might have explained the night sweats, fatigue and bloody urine. By the time he finally got a job that came with health coverage and got the tests he needed, it was too late: The cancer had spread and was inoperable.
On Tuesday morning, Holliday put down her brushes for a few moments to listen to a conference call with reporters held by the president of the industry lobby, Karen Ignagni of America’s Health Insurance Plans, who continued her fight against the public option. It would, she said, “dismantle employer coverage, bankrupt local hospitals” and be a “financial catastrophe.”
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My brother died two weeks ago with out any insurance he was homeless and I have to take care of his ashes the problem is I have no money and cant let him be dug and plotted in bunker hill. I need to get help with cremation and the costs of everything I cant afford. there are shipping costs cremation is 1726.46 all together what can I do.
If your brother was a veteran I’d suggest you contact the Veteran’s Administration. If he wasn’t I can only suggest you contact a welfare agency wherever you live. Or you might contact a church, perhaps they can help, or refer you to someone who can. Or maybe someone, somewhere, that reads this may have a better idea.
Best of luck to you.
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