Young Adult Cancer & Health Insurance on Fresh Air

Terry Gross recently interviewed writers and cancer survivors Iva Skoch and Kairol Rosenthal on Fresh Air.? Both authors discuss the health insurance issues they dealt with when they were diagnosed. Kairol Rosenthal uses a succinct and thoughtful anaology - recalling the myth? about a child trapped under a car and the mother somehow gathering enough strength and focus to pull the car off the injured child - and how upon her diagnosis in her twenties, she felt like both the child and the mother.? Spoken like someone that? has? navagated? the messy labryinth of treatment, paperwork, and phone calls that is known as Young Adult Cancer.?

The first chapter of Kairol Rosenthal’s book Everything Changes: The Insider’s Guide to Cancer in Your 20s and 30s contains great health insurance and financial guidance information for cancer patients.? You can download it for free on her website http://everythingchangesbook.com/

Listen to the Fresh Air interview here (running time 38mins 35sec).

Or view the transcript here.

Read Skoch’s Newsweek.com article “Young Patients Laugh at Cancer”