Kept the stats for the men's basketball team and actually passed away. Went into cardiac arrest at a Pit Duquesne women's game December 4th of, of 1998. We never had health insurance because [insurance companies] at that time could deny you for pre-existing conditions. But I also said when I would tell someone my brother had muscular dysphy, then they would meet him, they would say if he wasn't in the wheelchair, you wouldn't know because he just had that type of personality. (23:19–23:25)
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Asserts that insurance companies could deny coverage for pre-existing conditions before the Affordable Care Act.
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