Defending Andy: One Mother's Fight to Save Her Son from Cancer and the Insurance Industry - Softcover

Azevedo, Marilyn

 
9781558749061: Defending Andy: One Mother's Fight to Save Her Son from Cancer and the Insurance Industry

Inhaltsangabe

A powerful memoir of a hospice nurse's painful journey as her own sixteen-year-old son battled a rare form of cancer describes how she took on the health insurance bureaucracy and lobbied Congress to reform inequities in the system. Original. 20,000 first printing.

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A powerful memoir of a hospice nurse's painful journey as her own sixteen-year-old son battled a rare form of cancer describes how she took on the health insurance bureaucracy and lobbied Congress to reform inequities in the system. Original. 20,000 first printing.

Biografía del autor

Marilyn Azevedo is a Registered Nurse living in Petaluma, California. Because of her efforts, President Clinton signed into law a bill that makes it illegal to deny people health insurance because of a pre-existing medical condition. After Andy's illness and death, she became a public speaker for the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

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