Young Woman Battles Insurance Company For Effective Medications

“I am 29 years old, and have a blood condition called ITP. I don’t know how I got it, but I am stuck with a moody, unpredictable auto-immune condition,” said Mira Zaki of Astoria, N.Y. “I was first diagnosed with this condition in 2004 while I was attending graduate school and generally wearing myself extremely thin in order to balance going to college and working two jobs. My health was deteriorating, but I couldn’t stop because I had too much work to do.

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Filed under: Health Insurance / Medical Insurance on October 27th, 2008