Searching for a Health Care Article

June 28, 2012 5:54 PM

I'm searching for a first-person account about one person's experience with health care costs that I read on the blue.

It was written a few years ago by a woman for a national magazine. It was a well-regarded article or series of articles. I want to say the woman was famous or somehow moneyed but I'm not sure. It goes into how I think both her daughter and husband had health problems at the same time and it pulled the family down into this problem of being under- or uninsured that they never thought they would be in. I think her daughter was in some kind of accident (maybe horse back riding?) and required round the clock care. Help! Thanks!

posted by unannihilated to MetaFilter-Related at 5:54 PM (9 comments total)

Here's one that's similar but it's by a male science writer and more recent.
posted by LobsterMitten at 6:16 PM on June 28, 2012

That's not it, but thanks. It was definitely by a woman.
posted by unannihilated at 6:23 PM on June 28, 2012

Was it the lead story from this post? (The DailyKos link isn't working for me right now, but the story was also posted here.)
posted by grapesaresour at 8:48 PM on June 28, 2012

No, that's not it either. The woman herself wasn't sick, it was two of her family members and long-term care was involved in it I believe. Thanks for trying.
posted by unannihilated at 8:59 PM on June 28, 2012

Kate Michelman?
posted by (alice) at 11:35 PM on June 28, 2012 [4 favorites]

YES. That's it! Thank you, Alice!
posted by unannihilated at 2:56 AM on June 29, 2012

Check this one out from Rob Cockerham.
posted by popechunk at 5:53 AM on June 29, 2012

Oh my god the comments on that.
posted by lwb at 10:36 PM on June 30, 2012

lwb: "Oh my god the comments on that."

Ugh. Yeah.

Wait, which one were you referring to? 'Cause… ugh, and ugh…
posted by Lexica at 11:16 PM on June 30, 2012