You might say Dean Goering was scared to death.

He had known for months that something was wrong. The pain running through his leg was a lot like what he had experienced seven years ago when he was laid up in the hospital with a potentially lethal blood clot.

Goering had health insurance back then. And after years without coverage, he signed up recently with another health plan. He was just afraid to use it.

A paragraph in his new policy warned that he’d have to wait 12 months for coverage of a pre-existing condition.

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