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I Am Not a Dog

Posted October 19, 2009 | 15:14:54 (EST)

I am not a "dog." That's what health insurance executives called me because I have a disease. I'm also not a "trainwreck," another term they used for members like me.

Soon after I was born in 1972, I was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy. By the time I was six years...

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