A couple shares their insurance coverage expenses.  At $23,207 a year with a $1500 deductible, retaining insurance is a challenge.
Linda and her husband Tom own a small residential remodeling business.  Both are reasonably healthy individuals, yet the price they pay for their insurance is astronomical.  The couple has seen their insurance premiums increase dramatically [...]

Jen was seven months pregnant when she began showing signs of illness. Sean, her husband, rushed her to the ER where after four hours she was diagnosed with a cold, perhaps some bronchitis, and sent home with a prescription the couple could not afford. Sean and Jen were uninsured and soon found that this status [...]

Pre-existing condition clauses force Will, diagnosed with AIDS, out of his job and into low-income work so that he can qualify for public aid that covers what insurance companies will not.

“When President Obama mentioned the possibility of ending discrimination based on preexisting conditions, I started to cry,” recalls Will Wilson.  Will was diagnosed with AIDS [...]

Abby considers how her life would have changed had her family not had health coverage.
While we hear a lot of horror stories about the health care crisis and the implosion of our health system, Abby Suskin relates a more optimistic story about her family’s experience.
Seven years ago, Abby’s father had a freak bicycle accident that [...]

After successfully battling cancer, a Northwestern graduate faces private insurance denials and high premium costs.
Grant Suhs was diagnosed with a pineal germ cell brain tumor on April 1st, 2004. At the time, he was the top freshman in his class at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. He immediately left school to undergo extensive [...]