Exposing the Greed and Grasping of America’s Health Insurance Giants
What she’s done to help create a more equal world: Coffey developed a series of rare debilitating conditions — including complex regional pain syndrome and small fiber neuropathy — after battling breast cancer. Her experiences trying to get UnitedHealthcare to cover the infusions she needs to live without overwhelming pain have radicalized this former Republican lawmaker.
Coffey has channeled her pain into activism through People’s Action’s Care Over Costs campaign, an effort that’s pressuring private health insurers to end denials and onerous prior authorization requirements.
What makes equality so important to her: “UnitedHealthcare would rather leave me in torture than grant me the peace my infusions bring,” Coffey noted at a protest in New York last week. “I’m asking for a life worth dignity. I’m left begging for a life worth living.”
