Susan Counceller

52, Liberty Indiana

Eric Parks writes:

My mother after paying into the insurance system for 30 years, lost her insurance when the company she worked for shut down. My mother and father worked at the same manufacturing company for nearly 20 years. Because they both lost their jobs, my mother had no insurance. She then found out she had breast cancer. She could not afford chemo and many of the drugs and treatment necessary. She lived in a small mobile home, but my mother and father owned some land that the mobile home sat on. She didn't want to lose the few acres she raised her children on and chose death instead. She died at 52, still leaving thousands of dollars of medical bills that my father had to pay after finding a new job with no insurance making $6 an hour.

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