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Holly Moore
Holly Moore detail her experience dealing with the inefficient and expensive healthcare system in Texas during her leg injury.
Read MoreDavid Smith
I am a 5th generation Texan, been away for 22 years and just returned May 1st to deal with my elderly mom. I am a chronic intractable pain patient with scoliosis, 18-level spinal fusion, arachnoiditis, and was dumped of my pain medication regimen of 14 years and cannot get anyone to treat me effectively with…
Read MoreMichele W. Missner
We moved to Austin Texas in 2012. We have Medicare and WEA Trust for our secondary insurance from my husband’s job at the univ of Wisconsin Oshkosh. We each have multiple doctors and have had no problem getting dr appts. We are lucky. This is not true of many disadvantaged are not so lucky. Abbott’s refusal to accept the Medicaid expansion boggles the mind. It’s abject cruelty.
Read MoreRebecca Wood
“My insurance wouldn’t pay it because it wasn’t my doctor. Charlie’s insurance wouldn’t pay it because she wasn’t born yet.I think about all this a lot and it angers me. I think about how I was in the nation’s capital and this was considered “good” health care with “good” insurance and I’m furious. If this is what it was like for me, what chance do mothers with lesser privilege have? ”
Read MoreCharlotte
For my first child, I was unable to acquire marketplace health insurance due to my income being too high. For my second birth, I did have insurance through my husband’s employer. However, the reimbursal process was a time-consuming headache that took months.
Read MoreEdith
The cost of OBGYN and child birth fee was almost unaffordable for Edith.
Read MoreClaire Walsh
The extreme cost of Child birth in the US was shocking even with insurance.
Read MoreSharon
Sharon is sharing my story about how I used the money from a class action suit against A.H. Robins Co. because their IUD product, the Dalkon Shield, led to so many women like myself having tubal infections and sterility.
Read MoreHeather
Heather’s maternal health experience with a midwives compared to her demeaning experience at the traditional doctor’s office.
Read MoreAlice Swift
Alice experience the differences in health cost during heir pregnancy and delivery between the US and the UK.
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