This woman has a hole in her heart that has been causing reoccurring stroke events She has full health insurance but they denied the coverage to close the hole in her heart, saying it was unnecessary After having multiple more strokes, she had to privately raise money from donations to afford the surgery, even though she has full health insurance We need healthcare reform and we need it right now. It keeps getting worse and worse “My insurance declined any coverage for a procedure to close a hole in my heart that has been causing me to have minor strokes. Their reason for doing this is my age and the amount of bubbles on my echo, and they said I am a low risk for reoccurring stroke events. I have been having stroke events since May 4th. Last night I did have another stroke event after being inpatient and admitted into a hospital for having a stroke event” “Six days later, I had another stroke event, even though my insurance deemed me as low risk. Thankfully, with crowdfunding and private and public donations, I was able to raise about half of the $75,000 goal needed for the procedures and the hospital has allowed me to schedule the procedure” This procedure is only about an hour long outpatient procedure but the cost is $75,000…. WE NEED healthcare reform