To pay her three most recent health insurance premiums -- $800 payments equal to 70 percent of her monthly income -- Molly Sullivan wrote checks against her Maple Grove home equity loan. "When I was working I wasn't poor ... I would buy a cheaper policy, but now I have diabetes and arthritis and they won't sell me one." Sullivan joined other older Minnesotans in St. Paul on Thursday to explain why the AARP, in a step that could prove highly influential, has announced it will endorse a bill in the U.S. House to overhaul the nation's health insurance system.
Full Article at Minneapolis Star Tribune