Finish Reform Right Hour 1: Georgeanne Kohler
Posted on January 5th, 2010 by Jason Rosenbaum in Insurance Nightmares
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Georgeanne's story:
In 2003, William Koehler of Pittsburgh, Pa. lost his job as an electronics technician. He lost his health insurance, too, but he'd been lucky enough to have the defibrillator battery in his heart changed just the previous year. No insurer would cover him except for one company which refused to cover anything related to his arrhythmia, says his sister.
He survived as long as his battery did, dying on March 7, 2009 at 57. His sister, Georgeanne Koehler, has become an activist, telling the story about how her brother died to anyone who will listen. On Thursday, she traveled to Washington, D.C. from Pittsburgh to join a protest outside a conference for America's Health Insurance Plans, a lobbying group for the insurance industry.
Georgeanne started a postcard-writing campaign to Congress over the holidays, delivering hundreds of postcards in support of real reform to Congress.
Health reform is at the finish line. Georgeanne and her brother are just two of the reasons we need health care reform and we need to finish it right. We'll be posting one story every hour for twenty-four hours today to make sure we finish health reform right.
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