High-risk insurance pool bridges gaps for babies

 
BY PAULA BURKES pburkes@opubco.com
Published: January 15, 2012

When two health insurance companies denied coverage to her chronically asthmatic daughter Jaiden, Martha Wilson of Moore was starting to get frantic. Neither she nor her husband has employer- sponsored insurance. The doctor's office where Martha works as a receptionist doesn't offer it, and her husband is a self-employed used car dealer.

Meanwhile, Jaiden, 10, needs steroids to control her life-threatening asthma...


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