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Risky sacrifice Poor face choice between health, rent.

Publication: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
Publication Date: 31-JUL-05
Format: Online - approximately 704 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Risky sacrifice Poor face choice between health, rent.(Series: DuPage's Poverty Crisis: A Special Report)(News)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Marni Pyke Daily Herald Staff Writer

He could pay his rent or he could pay a doctor.

Rafael Alfaro chose shelter, but his decision came with a price - amputation of two toes after his diabetes went untreated for months.

His plight is not uncommon.

About 45 million Americans without health insurance live in a dangerous world where aches and pains, palpitations and fevers go without care.

In DuPage County, it's estimated as many as 65,000 people have no medical benefits. They're people who've lost jobs, workers whose employers don't offer insurance or don't provide adequate coverage, or newly arrived immigrants.

Alfaro came...

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