Those severe brain injury survivors who were left with a set of residual physical, cognitive, andmentalhealthproblems could no longer expect to get private insurance once their COBRA ran out.
More than a third of the nation's 12.6 million cancer survivors had physical or mentalhealthproblems that put their overall health in jeopardy and had a negative impact on their quality of life, according to a recent study of federal health data funded by the National Cancer Institute.