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Susan Moore has colon cancer. She couldn’t afford transportation to dialysis three times a week. Until recently, she wanted to die. Her story struck reporter Tracie Potts especially hard.
When a couple with three children signed into their state insurance marketplace to renew coverage, they found that the cost had more than tripled.
Health policy experts say that 7 million working Americans earn just a little too much to qualify for subsidies, which means that insurance is unaffordable.
One of Tracie Potts’ three L.A. County-focused stories documented an emerging trend in community health clinics: giving away food to families that sometimes don’t have enough to eat.
Pastor Daryl Arnold was homeless just a few years ago and couldn't afford to take his own daughter to the ER. Now he is helping local health navigators enroll people needing affordable coverage.
Both parents and physicians at a community clinic in Los Angeles County worry about what will happen if Medicaid is turned into a block grant system, as the Trump Administration has proposed.
2017 "Country Doctor of the Year" Dr. Van Breeding weighs in on how to treat patients when Medicaid is at risk.
Despite the Trump Administration’s efforts to discourage enrollment in health coverage through the government marketplaces, enrollment is up in some places, including Maruland.
Sarah Moore, a Kentucky woman who needs thrice-weekly dialysis because of kidney failure, can't afford transport to the clinic and may give up the life-saving treatments.
In depressed towns in Kentucky, residents struggle to earn enough to afford health insurance.
Other stories in the series include:
Forgotten Voices (Part 1)
Forgotten Voices: Children's health reform
Forgotten Voices: Spiritual health
Forgotten Voices: Health nutritio
