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Deborah Russell: From health insurance to Medicaid
Photo credit: Newsday/Thomas Maier | Trained as a nurse, Deborah Russell, 55, is a divorced mother to five grown children who relies on Medicaid to cover doctor visits and 16 medications that she takes for diabetes, high blood pressure, heart and thyroid problems.
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Deborah Russell, 55
Mother of five adult children; lives on Social Security disability.
Home:Wyandanch
Her health care coverage then:When she was married in the 1970s, and at other points in her life, Russell and her children had health insurance; but at other times, she had none at all. In 2003, Russell said, she suffered a heart attack and spent three weeks in a hospital. She...
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