By North America reporter James Glenday and Niall Lenihan in Virginia
Updated.
March 03, 2020 07: 51:25
Zann Nelson was having lunch with a good friend when she suddenly began bleeding.
Key points:
- Approximately 27.5 million Americans don’t have medical insurance
- Health Care in the US is twice as pricey as it is in any other industrialized country
- Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren want universal health care for Americans
Not just was she unexpectedly grappling with her own death, Zann was likewise horrified about what it could cost.
The medical diagnosis was uterine cancer and the surgeon’s service was a radical hysterectomy to remove Zann’s uterus prior to the growth spread.
However within weeks, a series of expenses began appearing in the mail– some from imaging, some from physicians and some from the health center itsel