Welcome to Utahns for the Medicaid Expansion

Katherine got infected with West Nile virus while serving an LDS Mission.  Complications from the virus badly damaged her heart, requiring the placement of a double chamber pacemaker.  Got cut off from her parents insurance when she turned 26.  Works part time at the University of Utah in a job that doesn’t have insurance.  Is supposed to be getting the pacemaker checked once every 6 months, but can’t afford the Cardiology visits.

Lost her insurance when her husband left her and their two young children.  Unable to get on any other insurance because she had a pre-existing condition of diabetes.  Has had multiple emergency room visits and hospitalizations because of not being able to afford the insulin to treat the diabetes.

Diagnosed with breast cancer in 2009.  Lost her insurance when she got laid off, and so could not afford the chemotherapy and radiation that her doctors recommended.  The Cancer came back in the fall of 2012, and is now widespread.

In her first year of Medical school Lindsi was diagnosed with Multiple sclerosis.  She kept a full time job for the first two years of medical school just so she could keep insurance coverage.  In the third year of school, her schedule forced her to drop the job, so she got cut off from insurance.  Her Medication costs $5000 per month.

In 2010 Don got an infection.  He had no insurance, and so didn’t get appropriate care until it spread to his spinal cord and brain.  Survived the infection, but is now permanently disabled as a result.