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Cancer Kills Sister Because of Lack of Health Insurance

"For months, despite her weight loss, vomiting, and constant pain, not one medical professional suggested further testing - because Frances did not have health insurance," Anne Gentry of Ripley, W.Va., recalls about her sister’s fight for her life. "My brother worked a $10 per hour job out of state, coming home on weekends. No testing was done until about seven months into the ordeal, when someone suggested checking her gall bladder."

"It wasn't until she collapsed one weekend and was taken to the hospital that any significant testing was done. Of course, by then the cancer had spread throughout her entire abdomen. It was not until after this that anyone found a source of funds besides the sliding fee scale at the local clinic."