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Thank you Marsha for having the courage to come forward and share your thoughts on this.
[MARSHA] I am on the other side of this story. I have been self employed for over 35 years
and sometimes two or three jobs. That provided enough income to take care of my financial
responsibilities but not enough income at all to pay out of pocket for insurance costs.
So I was fortunate to have my care through the Women's Health Network here in Grand Rapids.
I would go faithfully, faithfully every year for my exams and do everything I needed for
my health. In 2004, the bad news came. "We're sorry, but you have breast cancer." Right
now I feel the goose bumps again. And I looked into my doctor's face and I said, "But, but
you know I don't have health insurance, what will I do? And she and the women's health
network helped me connect with Medicaid. they took care of everything for those five years
I needed help- the Chemo, the shots after the Chemo, the fie years of check ups, the
scares in between, I had coverage. We need this program. We need this Medicaid program
to help folks like me who work hard and we want to take care of ourselves and do well
but we need the help, and that's my story on how Medicaid helped me.