An American Tragedy: A Serious Diagnosis And No Health Insurance

Susan Murphy-Milano, an author and fellow Forbes contributor, has made it her career to advocate for the rights of women and children. She even lobbied for the passage of 1993′s Illinois Stalking Law. Her quest for justice has been a 20-year pursuit.

Now, she’s in the fight of her life against cancer and faces one of the biggest travesties of all: no health insurance.

Susan’s life took another drastic turn in 1989 when her father, a 30-year veteran and decorated Chicago police detective, murdered her mother, Roberta, with his department-issued service revolver — a .44 magnum — then took his own life. Susan vowed to, for the rest of her life, speak for the victims of domestic violence — what she has termed ”intimate partner violence” – to give them a voice and the tools to survive.

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Susan, diagnosed in early June with stage IV cancer, isn’t unlike many Americans who find themselves in similar circumstances without adequate medical coverage. Besides being pricey, the variations of coverage often don’t pay the cost of treatment. According to a 2010 survey by the Center for Disease Control, 46 million Americans are without health insurance. One person, by my way of thinking, is too many.

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Cathy Scott, a graduate of the University of Redlands, is an author and award-winning journalist who’s received more than a dozen awards from news organizations in California and Nevada. Currently she is a staff writer for Best Friends Animal Society’s magazine and Web sites.

She is the author of the Los Angeles Times’ best-seller The Killing of Tupac Shakur, as well as The Murder of Biggie Smalls, Death in the Desert: The Ted Binion Homicide Case, and Death of a Mafia Daughter: The Life and Tragic Death of Susan Berman. Her newest book, to be released in October, 2011 is The Millionaire’s Wife about the 1990 contract murder of George Kogan on an Upper East Side Manhattan street in broad daylight. Fast-forward nearly 20 years, and Barbara Kogan, George’s estranged wife at the time, admitted to hiring a hit man to have her husband gunned down.

She’s also a freelance reporter and stringer for The New York Times and Reuters news service. Her work has appeared in George magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, New York Post, New York Times Magazine, The San Diego Union-Tribune, Las Vegas Sun, AmericaOnline and APBNews.com. Until she went to New Orleans to cover the largest natural disaster in history, she taught journalism at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She left that position to report on the rescue of animals for Best Friends.

She has appeared on Unsolved Mysteries, CourtTV, CNN, BET, VH1, MTV, Uncovered TV, CBS 2’s Morning Show, Talk Books, National Public Radio, and “Backstage Live” with Gary and Connie.”

Her work has taken her to Somalia, Saudi Arabia and Panama. A native San Diegan, she has one son and two grandchildren She lives in Las Vegas.

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"He Loves me, He Love Me Not" - The Susan Murphy Milano Show: Wednesday, September 15, 2010 at 4:00 PM EST

Often victims of intimate partner violence struggle with their emotions like a roller caster when faced with living in fear. Fear of what will happen if they leave or end the relationship. Fear of what could happen if they remain. Join us for an informative hour on "He loves me, He Loves me not."

Todays Guest's: Cathy Scott is a true crime author, award-winning journalist, public speaker, and presenter of writers' workshops. cathy Scott's books have been reprinted in the U.K. and in Poland. Scott's work has taken her to Somalia, Saudi Arabia and Panama, as well as all over the U.S. Her last major assignment was to the Gulf region to cover Hurricane Katrina and the largest animal rescue in history for Best Friends Animal Society's magazine and web site. And she is a contributor at the site Women and Crime Ink.

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