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NEWS & LETTERS, October - November 2009
Crystal Lee Sutton
The desperate need for healthcare reform became even more a reality on Sept. 11, when we lost one of our own. Crystal Lee Sutton died of brain cancer at 68 because her insurance company refused to cover treatment for her illness.
The inspiration for the 1979 movie Norma Rae, Sutton called her case and thousands like it "an example of abuse of the working poor…how can it take so long for them to decide when it could be a matter of life and death? It is almost like, in a way, committing murder." By the time the insurance company decided to cover her medication, it was too late. She died two months later.
--MJG
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