Hemophiliac, 02.28.10
Saturday, February 27, 2010
![Christian Rodriguez, 23, has a bad case of hemophilia. Still in college, he has exhausted his parents' health insurance and now his own high risk health coverage with the state, has reached the lifetime maximum of $2 million and he has been bumped off. It's because of the extremely expensive medicine he requires. By taking less than he should, he has about two months' worth of medicine left before he appeals to the drug companies' charity programs for help. After that, his options get sketchier.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20100303183706im_/http://alt.coxnewsweb.com/cnishared/tools/shared/mediahub/04/26/48/slideshow_1482642_RBB_Christian_Rodriguez_8.jpg)
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