Hallucinating & Hypertensive: A Long COVID Nightmare

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English - July 12, 2021 14:32 - 11 minutes - 15.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 10 ratings
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As if having Long COVID weren’t enough, does America’s broken healthcare system make things worse? Does the social safety net - meaning Medicaid, unemployment and disability insurance - actually save us? Join Mariana Pineda, a New York teacher and mother of four, as she shares her COVID long-haul nightmare with host Brenda Gazzar. It was hard enough just trying to stay alive and keep her health insurance in force. Why was getting treatments approved by her insurance like a full-time job?