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Article: Insurance May Be Hazardous to Your Health: "They Figured It Was Cheaper to Kill Me".
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- June 23, 2009
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Jun 23, 2009 (PRWeb.com via COMTEX) -- "They figured it was cheaper to kill me than to treat me," says lung cancer survivor Jo Joshua Godfrey of California, who beat gross insurance mismanagement in the nineties -- and now lives to talk about it.
She testified before the California legislature and even helped deliver caskets to key legislators in protest. Now, after seeing a daughter and a grandson suffer at the hands of insurers, she is launching a non-profit to help patients reform health insurance, and plans to tell her story to local, state and federal legislators and other decision makers.
"The goal of United Patients of America ...