She pays $3,062.48 a month for health insurance to cover this constant stream of treatment, which she can only afford with the help of a GoFundMe online fundraiser. She is too sick to work and is a single mother â her only income is child support payments.
Amid all of this, when Pinedaâs finished with doctorsâ appointments for the day and her four-year-old is asleep, she uses her last stores of energy to fight for the government-run healthcare program Medicare for All and its New York state equivalent.
âThis is my gift from the universe,â Pineda told the Guardian. âIf nothing else, the fact that I didnât die from Covid just ramped up my overwhelming desire to get Medicare for All and the New York Health Act.â
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