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Breast Cancer Killing U.S. Women Unable to Afford Health Care

31st January 2008

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There are many people suffering—and dying—in this nation from lack of health care, and Rachele Huennekens, AFL-CIO Media Outreach fellow, describes how this nation's growing health care crisis affects women.

 

Amy, a woman in Pennsylvania, prays for good health. Without health insurance, prayer is her option.

I've decided that the next time a lump is found I will NOT be getting the mammogram. I can't afford it. I pray nothing bad ever happens to my family or myself.

This situation may be much more common among working women today than we realize. Amy, who submitted this story to the AFL-CIO-Working America 2008 Health Care for America Survey, is among thousands of working people across the country who have shared their experiences with America’s broken health care system on the site.

 

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