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‘An Arm And A Leg’: Expecting A Baby And Unexpectedly Dropped By Insurer

By Dan Weissmann

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Caitlin and Corey Gaffer got a surprise letter from their insurance company: It was dumping them for nonpayment. Turned out, they’d sent a payment to the wrong address.

Their insurer was definitely not interested in hearing about it, or in taking them back.

Oh, also: Caitlin was a few months from giving birth. Then, the pregnancy ran into complications.

Find out what happened to the Minneapolis couple in the first episode of “An Arm and a Leg” Season 2, a co-production of Kaiser Health News and Public Road Productions.

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