Teresa Bross pays through the nose for ICHIP insurance. She looks forward to 2014 and the elimination of exclusionary pre-existing condition clauses.
When health care reform passed, Teresa picked up the phone and immediately began looking into her new options for insurance. Diagnosed with asthma and severe allergies, she has been excluded from the [...]

The Dill Pickle Food Co-op is a small, locally owned and operated cooperative, which offers local and organically grown foods.  For Vinnie Hernandez, the general manager, covering the co-op’s employees is a priority.  However, the experience of finding and establishing insurance for the co-op employees was bureaucratic and time consuming.  Vinnie had trouble finding adequate [...]

Health care reform may help this doctor finally afford health insurance and increase her patients’ ability to get care.
Dr. Mercedes Martinez is a child and adolescent psychiatrist who has no health insurance.  She works at three different community health centers caring for underserved youth and volunteers her time in the community providing education on [...]

A father is thankful for Illinois law that allows his daughter, diagnosed with Leukemia, to stay on the family plan until she turns 26, but wonders what happens next.
My name is Mark Kraemer and I am grateful for the excellent health insurance that I have through my employer. Without it we would not be able [...]

My name is Carol Park, and I am lucky to be on Medicare.  In the last two years I went through breast cancer, surgery, chemotherapy and more surgery.  Through it all, Medicare was a godsend.  But I met people during this journey who had lost their jobs or were uninsured and now can’t pay for [...]