This trade sized paperback offers a mother's story of fighting the insurance and medical powers that be to get the right care for her son fighting cancer and this copy is in great shape with little wear. The covers are shiny with little wear. The spine is very tight. The pages are white with little wear and no marks except an author's inscription on the first page. 350 pages. Cheap shipping media mail!

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Title: Defending Andy: One Mother's Fight to Save Her Son from Cancer and the Insurance Industry
Publisher: Health Communications, Inc., Deerfield Beach, FL
Publication Date: 2001
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1558749063
ISBN 13: 9781558749061
Binding: Soft cover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Very Good
Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

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A powerful memoir of a hospice nurse's painful journey as her own sixteen-year-old son battled a rare form of cancer describes how she took on the health insurance bureaucracy and lobbied Congress to reform inequities in the system. Original. 20,000 first printing.

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Marilyn Azevedo is a Registered Nurse living in Petaluma, California. Because of her efforts, President Clinton signed into law a bill that makes it illegal to deny people health insurance because of a pre-existing medical condition. After Andy's illness and death, she became a public speaker for the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

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