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I wrote this with Georgeanne Koehler and Ann Stanton with the hopes that it would be published as an op-ed in a Pittsburgh Newspaper before the final vote on the Affordable Care Act. It didn’t get in the paper but we got it out on the HCAN PA blog and other places. Ernest Hemingway once said that in the modern world, a man can live his whole life without knowing whether he is courageous. Some of us, however, do find out. One was our brother Billy Koehler, who suffered from both heart disease and the lack of health insurance. Billy lost his insurance when he lost his job as a technician and began delivering pizzas.  Because he had a pre-existing condition, he couldn’t get new health insurance. And when the battery on Billy’s defibrillator faltered, he couldn’t afford to have it replaced. That didn’t stop Billy from working hard or make… Continue reading

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