Law would affect thousands of uninsured locals
By Nick Tabor, New Era Senior Staff Writer
By Nick Tabor, New Era Senior Staff Writer
Spring Stillman, who has diabetes and a liver disease, has lived without health insurance since she was 18.
Stillman, now 37, handles bookkeeping for her
husband’s flooring business, so she doesn’t have a large employer to provide
benefits. But even when she worked at an accounting company for eight years,
she couldn’t get insurance because of her pre-existing conditions.
Though St. Luke
Free Clinic helps her a great deal, her insulin and pills cost more than $400 a
month, and she pays more than $300 a month for cancer, heart and life insurance
policies. And she’s still paying off a hospital bill from 2002.
She would gladly pay $500 a month for health
insurance if she found a plan that gave enough benefits in return.
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