Real life reason for health care reform

[Po_d Mainiac]

On July 7, Jamie Kingsbury, a 32-year-old mother of four, went to the hospital after battling what she thought was a severe cold for several weeks. There, she was told she was suffering from severe aplastic anemia, a disease that – like leukemia – attacks bone marrow.

While receiving treatment, Kingsbury developed pneumonia and eventually an invasive fungal infection in her lungs. Lacking the necessary blood cells to ward off the infection, she died early Saturday morning, Sept. 19.

Her death couldn't have come at a worse time for her family.

Her husband, Jeff, was laid off at Fairchild Semiconductor in South Portland last year, losing his life insurance policy. Since then, the family has fallen behind its bills and is now struggling to come up with burial costs for Jamie.

http://www.theforecaster.net/node/27616/

Jeff is a graduate of Athens Elementary and Madison High Schools. Product of public education. Did good. Worked for a fortune 500 Corp, and got dealt one of the shittiest hands possible. My kids grew up with him and his sisters, you can't ask for better people.

Call Snowe and tell her get off her ass and act. If she wants a trigger.....here it is. The time for the trigger to kick in has passed. If you can help....just follow the article to the end.

[jpak]

1. Take a peek inside just about any convenience store in rural Maine

and you will see a collection jar or a hand-written poster for a benefit for a local that can't pay their medical bills.

And the GOP sees nothing wrong with this picture....

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