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Tatiana Prowell: I was a doctor before the Affordable Care Act

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Sep 14, 2024, 13:51

Tatiana Prowell: I was a doctor before the Affordable Care Act

Monica Verduzco-Gutierrez, Professor and Chair of Rehabilitation Medicine at the Long School of Medicine at UT Health San Antonio, shared a post by Tatiana Prowell on X, adding:

“Also as a doctor before the ACA, I saw patients have strokes or TBIs or SCIs and then lose jobs and not be able to get any insurance to cover rehab. And there is a 2+ year wait to get on Medicare if deemed disabled, so they went 2+ years with no therapy. Not going back!”

Quoting Tatiana Prowell‘s post:

“I was a dr before the Affordable Care Act. And people with cancer did hit lifetime caps and had further treatment denied by insurers. They were dropped from plans, declared bankruptcy, and died. We are NEVER EVER going back to that.”

Source: Monica Verduzco-Gutierrez/X and Tatiana Prowell/X

Tatiana M. Prowell is an Associate Professor of Oncology in the Division of Women’s Malignancies at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center and Breast Cancer Scientific Liaison to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

She was the principal architect of FDA’s policy on accelerated approval using pathological complete response as a novel regulatory endpoint in the neoadjuvant high-risk breast cancer setting, and a member of the Biden Cancer Moonshot Blue Ribbon Panel Cancer Immunology Working Group. A frequent public speaker, she is a three-time recipient of FDA’s Excellence in Communication Award.

She is a past Giants of Cancer Care Award finalist, the recipient of the 2019 John and Samuel Bard Medal in Science or Medicine, and the recipient of a 2020 Webby Special Achievement Award for her effective use of social media during the pandemic. A passionate medical educator and mentor, she was Chair of the 2020 ASCO Annual Meeting Education Committee.