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The Resource Cover me : a health insurance memoir, Sonya Huber

Cover me : a health insurance memoir, Sonya Huber

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Summary
  • "Wise, irreverent, honest, and utterly compelling--Sonya Huber finds unexpected truth and gentle comedy in every bizarre corner of this insane labyrinth we call our health-care system."--Dinty W. Moore, author of Between Panic and Desire
  • "The sheer, jet-propelled energy of this memoir elevates it into a tour de force. I found it by turns hilarious and heartbreaking."--Sue William Silverman, author of Fearless Confessions: A Writer's Guide to Memoir
  • "Timely, passionate, informative, and moving, Sonya Huber's Cover Me is a scathing memoir of an uninsured young mother's encounter with health care in America."--Floyd Skloot, author of In the Shadow of Memory
  • Growing up in middle-class middle America, Sonya Huber viewed health care as did most of her peers: as an inconvenience or not at all. There were braces and cavities, medications and stitches, the family doctor and the local dentist. Finding herself without health insurance after college graduation, she didn't worry. It was a temporary problem. Thirteen years and twenty-three jobs later, herview of the matter was quite different. Huber's irrevernt and affecting memoir of navigating the nation's health-care system brings an awful and necessary dose of reality to the political debates and propaganda surrounding health-care reform
  • "I look like any other upwardly mobile hipster," Huber says. "I carry a messenger bag, a few maste's degrees, and a toddler raised on organic milk." What's not evident, howeve, is that she is a veteran of Medicaid and WIC, the federal government's supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children. In Cover Me, Huber tells a story that is at once all too familiar and rarely told; of being pushed to the edge by worry; of the adamant belief that better care was out there; of taking one mind-numbing job after another in pursuit of health insurance, only to find herself scrounging through the trash heap of our nation's health-care system for tips and tricks that might mean the difference between life and death. --Book Jacket
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
1 online resource (x, 193 pages)
Contents
  • Waiting for the placebo effect
  • Medical magic
  • Do it yourself
  • Failure to heal
  • Female trouble
  • Healthcare for all, almost
  • Prescriptions
  • Employee + child(ren)
  • The melodrama discount
  • Healthy start
  • Fringe benefits
  • The price tag
  • Following up
Isbn
9780803232983
Instance
Label
Cover me : a health insurance memoir
Title
Cover me
Title remainder
a health insurance memoir
Statement of responsibility
Sonya Huber
Creator
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
  • "Wise, irreverent, honest, and utterly compelling--Sonya Huber finds unexpected truth and gentle comedy in every bizarre corner of this insane labyrinth we call our health-care system."--Dinty W. Moore, author of Between Panic and Desire
  • "The sheer, jet-propelled energy of this memoir elevates it into a tour de force. I found it by turns hilarious and heartbreaking."--Sue William Silverman, author of Fearless Confessions: A Writer's Guide to Memoir
  • "Timely, passionate, informative, and moving, Sonya Huber's Cover Me is a scathing memoir of an uninsured young mother's encounter with health care in America."--Floyd Skloot, author of In the Shadow of Memory
  • Growing up in middle-class middle America, Sonya Huber viewed health care as did most of her peers: as an inconvenience or not at all. There were braces and cavities, medications and stitches, the family doctor and the local dentist. Finding herself without health insurance after college graduation, she didn't worry. It was a temporary problem. Thirteen years and twenty-three jobs later, herview of the matter was quite different. Huber's irrevernt and affecting memoir of navigating the nation's health-care system brings an awful and necessary dose of reality to the political debates and propaganda surrounding health-care reform
  • "I look like any other upwardly mobile hipster," Huber says. "I carry a messenger bag, a few maste's degrees, and a toddler raised on organic milk." What's not evident, howeve, is that she is a veteran of Medicaid and WIC, the federal government's supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children. In Cover Me, Huber tells a story that is at once all too familiar and rarely told; of being pushed to the edge by worry; of the adamant belief that better care was out there; of taking one mind-numbing job after another in pursuit of health insurance, only to find herself scrounging through the trash heap of our nation's health-care system for tips and tricks that might mean the difference between life and death. --Book Jacket
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Biography type
autobiography
Cataloging source
N$T
http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
1971-
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Huber, Sonya
Dewey number
368.38/20092
Government publication
government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
Index
no index present
LC call number
RA413.7.U53
LC item number
H83 2010eb
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Series statement
Class in America
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Huber, Sonya
  • Medically uninsured women
  • Columbus (Ohio)
  • Huber, Sonya
  • BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
  • BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
  • Medically uninsured women
  • Ohio
  • United States
Label
Cover me : a health insurance memoir, Sonya Huber
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Publication
Antecedent source
unknown
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Waiting for the placebo effect -- Medical magic -- Do it yourself -- Failure to heal -- Female trouble -- Healthcare for all, almost -- Prescriptions -- Employee + child(ren) -- The melodrama discount -- Healthy start -- Fringe benefits -- The price tag -- Following up
Control code
703155212
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (x, 193 pages)
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780803232983
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
0132d790-66d3-4f3d-b67a-1514e9e509c9
Quality assurance targets
not applicable
Reformatting quality
unknown
Sound
unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)703155212
Label
Cover me : a health insurance memoir, Sonya Huber
Publication
Antecedent source
unknown
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Waiting for the placebo effect -- Medical magic -- Do it yourself -- Failure to heal -- Female trouble -- Healthcare for all, almost -- Prescriptions -- Employee + child(ren) -- The melodrama discount -- Healthy start -- Fringe benefits -- The price tag -- Following up
Control code
703155212
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (x, 193 pages)
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780803232983
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
0132d790-66d3-4f3d-b67a-1514e9e509c9
Quality assurance targets
not applicable
Reformatting quality
unknown
Sound
unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)703155212

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