Essay on "Health Care Blog: "Alycia-Care: Peace"

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Her mother described Avey in the video, saying that Avey loves "music, she loves art, she is active and she's been so strong through all of this. She is amazing, amazing, she takes her medicine and goes to the clinic and goes through the procedures without a fuss."

Avey has what is called Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL), which is a rapidly spreading kind of cancer that attacks the white blood cells. The white blood cells are the ones that fight disease (the red blood cells carry oxygen throughout the body), so when the Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia kind of cancer hit the white blood cells in Avey's body, it could have killed the little girl if she had not received the treatments (which are really expensive).

Avey's mother said that by the time Avey finished her chemotherapy, she will have been subjected to this difficult treatment for half of her life! But the treatment, her mother said, is the difference between life and death. "There's nothing more important than that, to make sure your child gets the treatment she needs. The Affordable Care Act has given us tremendous peace of mind knowing that Avey will be able to get the treatment she needs," Alycia said in the video.

Without the Affordable Care Act, Avey still might have been able to get insurance, but it is not likely she would be covered for the expensive chemotherapy treatments, her mother said in the video. If all goes well with the treatments, Avey will be cured of her cancer and will become a normal, healthy, happy little girl, and her parents are so pleased that the Affordable Care Act has allowed them to count on their health insurance to cover these expensive treatments. For those politicians who want to throw out the Affordable Care Act, Avey's story should be heard.

Works Cited

Salcido, Dori. (2012). Alycia-Care: Peace of Mind in Knowing a Sick Child Won't Be Denied

Health Coverage. Healthcare.gov. Retrieved July 7, 2012, from http://www.healthcare.gov. READ MORE

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