Molly Secours, a Nashville health-care activist, filmmaker and writer appeared on national television Wednesday in a news conference held by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., during which Secours told of her recent struggles to pay for expensive cancer treatments without adequate health insurance.
Pelosi's news conference was held to support President Barack Obama's current ef-forts to promote passage of his health-care reform bill, which would provide a form of government-backed health insurance to millions of Americans who don't have coverage now.
The midday event was carried live on several cable-TV networks, including MSNBC.
Secours, who in 2006 produced a documentary film detailing the negative effects of cuts in Tennessee's TennCare health-insurance plan, said she was diagnosed with uterine cancer in 2007 and found out that her "low-end health-care policy with a large deductible" came woefully short of paying the bills for treatment.
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