Cover Me: A Health Insurance Memoir

ISBN-13: 9780803226234 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 208 str.

Sonya Huber; Jeffrey R. Di Leo

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Growing up in middle-class middle America, Sonya Huber viewed health care as did most of her peers: as an inconvenience or not at all. There were braces and cavities, medications and stitches, the family doctor and the local dentist. Finding herself without health insurance after college graduation, she didn t worry. It was a temporary problem. Thirteen years and twenty-three jobs later, her view of the matter was quite different. Huber s irreverent and affecting memoir of navigating the nation s health-care system brings an awful and necessary dose of reality to the political debates and propaganda surrounding health-care reform. I look like any other upwardly mobile hipster, Huber says. I carry a messenger bag, a few master s degrees, and a toddler raised on organic milk. What s not evident, however, is that she is a veteran of Medicaid and WIC, the federal government s supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children. InCover Me, Huber tells a story that is at once all too familiar and rarely told: of being pushed to the edge by worry; of the adamant belief that better care was out there; of taking one mind-numbing job after another in pursuit of health insurance, only to find herself scrounging through the trash heap of our nation s health-care system for tips and tricks that might mean the difference between life and death."