Readers Share Personal Insights on Deadly Denials and Pregnancy Centers

KFF Health News has published a selection of reader letters responding to its recent healthcare coverage, and the most wrenching comes from a Texas widow. She writes that her seventy-eight-year-old husband, who had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, took his own life after one of his newly prescribed nebulizer medications went unfilled because it required prior authorization from his insurer. A welcome packet for the treatment, she says, arrived twenty-five days after it was prescribed. Other letters weigh in on Medicare's new coverage of weight-loss drugs, the role of anti-abortion pregnancy centers providing prenatal care, the toll of immigrant parents' arrests on their children, and cheaper generic drug options, KFF Health News reports.

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