(NPR) Health Insurance Cutbacks Squeeze The Insured

[Amber] Cooper had a liver transplant when she was 10. She takes a drug twice a day so her body won’t reject her liver.

“Every year my company changes the insurance. And instead of giving us three different choices for insurance plans, they were changing to one, which was a high-deductible plan with no prescription coverage,” she said.

Cooper was stunned. Her anti-rejection medicine costs way more than she could afford on her own ”” more than $1,000 a month.

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