Bernadette Segura
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March 30, 2012
“I’m sorry ma’am, the hospitals only have to provide care to you in emergency circumstances. They don’t have to provide you with anything else.” It’s been two years since the ACA became law. Since then, we’ve heard grumbles from the left, the right and everywhere in between. Last year I wrote about how I wished universal health care had existed when I sustained an injury while an uninsured student. I still believe that universal health care is a good thing for Americans. I believe that universal health care is a good thing for Latinos. As a legal aid attorney in Texas, I’ve had the...
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March 24, 2011
Now that I am the mother of two children, sons aged 2 ½ and 11 months, I am grateful for a law like the Affordable Care Act. When I was 21, I “aged out” of my parents’ insurance because I was no longer in school full-time. My first job after graduating from college provided me with insurance but when I decided to go to law school, I was faced with an ugly truth - I could not afford health insurance. Fortunately, I was healthy and accident-free. Then during my first year of law school, at the age of 24, I was playing intramural basketball with friends and tore my anterior cruciate ligament (...
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