{"id":2331,"date":"2024-12-23T11:00:11","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T16:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/?p=2331"},"modified":"2024-12-23T11:00:11","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T16:00:11","slug":"bbc-news-ms-coffey-53-from-manchester-new-hampshire-was-diagnosed-with-breast-cancer-in-2013-and-later-fell-ill-with-complex-regional-pain-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/2024\/12\/23\/bbc-news-ms-coffey-53-from-manchester-new-hampshire-was-diagnosed-with-breast-cancer-in-2013-and-later-fell-ill-with-complex-regional-pain-syndrome\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC NEWS: Ms Coffey, 53, from Manchester, New Hampshire, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2013 and later fell ill with complex regional pain syndrome"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Ms Coffey, 53, from Manchester, New Hampshire, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2013 and later fell ill with complex regional pain syndrome, a potentially debilitating neurological condition. When a doctor suggested that she try ketamine therapy, her UHC insurance would not cover the procedure, she said. She has since become involved in a protest campaign organised by activist group People’s Action.<\/p>\n

Ms Coffey’s illness forced her to stop working as an emergency medical technician. She said she started a crowdfunding drive and had to sell most of her belongings in order to pay for the treatment herself.<\/p>\n

“I get to have some normality. I can sit up and paint, or I can enjoy a meal with my family” because of the treatment, she said. “I can have a life that’s worth living.”<\/p>\n

UnitedHealth Group told the BBC they could not comment on individual cases for privacy reasons.<\/p>\n

At the same time, much of the online discussion has effectively ignored the victim, Brian Thompson, who was 50.<\/p>\n

“It’s incredibly bleak that [Thompson’s death] hasn’t been covered as much because, bottom line, a person died, a person was murdered,” Blakely Thornton said.<\/p>\n

“The collective rage over [the healthcare industry] is really outweighing what is still a tragedy.”<\/p>\n

Ms Coffey, the UHC policyholder and patient, said: “My heart goes out to the family and I can’t imagine what they’re having to struggle with that [killing]. It’s awful to me that this is the catalyst for this debate.”<\/p>\n

“I would have much rather sat down and had a conversation with him.”<\/p>\n

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Ms Coffey, 53, from Manchester, New Hampshire, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2013 and later fell ill with complex regional pain syndrome, a potentially debilitating neurological condition. When a doctor suggested that she try ketamine therapy, her UHC insurance would not cover the procedure, she said. She has since become involved in a protest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2333,"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331\/revisions\/2333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}