Listen this week to me on the radio talking about how cancer, and my lack of health insurance, made me into an excellent liar. You can hear it this week online too by visiting the home page for The State We Are In and clicking on “This Week’s Show” next to my picture. Mine is the third story. It is about half way through the show.
A few months ago I got an email from a producer at Radio Netherlands Worldwide. “Do you have any good health insurance woes you’d like to craft into an essay for our international radio program, The State We’re In?”
*Do I?* Are they kidding? What young adult cancer patient in the U.S. doesn’t? The week I was diagnosed with cancer, I also learned that my former employer forgot to submit my COBRA papers and I had no health insurance. Here is where the lying part comes in.
My radio essay includes cancer diagnosis, banana milkshakes, sexual favors, lying to COBRA officials, and James Bond. The producers threw down a crazy techno track to it all and voila…. Have a listen. I hope you like it.
If public radio asked you for a good story about young adult cancer and health insurance woes - what would your story be?
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June 15th, 2009 at 12:42 PM
What a great radio piece (and awful story)! The last time I enrolled in Cobra I had no coverage for months despite the fact that I had been paying them, because someone had entered the WRONG YEAR in the computer.
June 29th, 2009 at 7:26 AM
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