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The Real "Norma Rae" Dies

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

On Sept. 11 at age 68 Crystal Lee Sutton died of brain cancer. She had had two surgeries and suffered a two-month lapse in treatment while she haggled over health care coverage. She told the Burlington (NC) Times News, she was fighting a battle facing so many of the working poor. “How in the world can it take so long to find out (whether they would cover the medicine or not) when it could be a matter of life or death?” she said. “It is almost like, in a way, committing murder.” The fight with the insurer was her second major battle of her life.

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