A Keyword Gave Me an Instant Denial

August 28, 2023 Written by the Hon. Jenn Coffey for the RSDSA blog. On the occasion of marking Medicare’s 58th birthday, I teamed up with an organization called “Be A Hero.” An organization that believes we should be able to access care without selling our lives away....

Everyone Deserves Access to the Best

July 31, 2023 Written by the Hon. Jenn Coffey for the RSDSA blog. An activist’s dream. That’s how I would describe the trip back to Washington D.C. for the “People’s Action Organizing Revival: a call to revitalize the movement for social justice by strengthening...

Honored to speak at the “Protect Our Care” Rally

Monday, July 31 at 11 AM – Veterans Memorial Park, 723 Elm Street, Manchester, NH Care Force One Rolled into Manchester as it Travels Across 16+ States, Making Over 30 Stops and Covering Nearly 8,000 Miles Protect Our Care’s “Lower Costs, Better Care” Bus Tour...

We Will Not Stop Fighting

July 3, 2023 Written by Hon. Jenn Coffey for the RSDSA blog. I want to share with you the work that I am doing and ask you for your help. People with CRPS know all too well the pain of being denied access to medical treatments and medications that could improve our...

Why did you just leave me there, Delta Air Lines?

**Update: I have been contacted by Delta and I have received an apology. Along with other assurances. Now we wait and watch to ensure they make real changes in how they handle the most at-risk who just want to travel safely. I was scheduled to fly with Delta Air Lines...

Healthcare for All

Recently, I started fighting back against my health insurance company. I was on the phone with the person filing the appeal, but their automated system simply found a keyword and denied the appeal seconds after she hit enter. This opened my eyes to just how really...

Coming Soon “Badass” by Jennifer Coffey

“I watched the dismantling of my life. My career in medicine was over. I couldn’t even care for myself properly and I couldn’t drive anymore. No one told me not to it was self-imposed. I still don’t drive to this day. If I have a spasm behind...

When Access to Medication and Treatment Is a Matter of Life and Death

Published on The Mighty June 1, 2023 America boasts the best health care in the world. Often we hear stories of people coming to America for life-saving treatments. Yet every day people needlessly die in the good ol’ US of A. Compared to other nations, it’s disgusting...