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