Names of the Dead: Jesse Lee Johnson 25, Reseda, CA

by Melanie on 02/11/09 at 10:36 pm

Please read and share. Just one of hundreds of stories about people who have died due to lack of health insurance. What kind of people have we become?

“My cousin Jesse who was my best friend died due a blood clot that had traveled to his heart. My cousin and I were at a Halloween party where he twisted his knee severly while dancing. At the time, Jesse was just starting out his own concrete pumping business which he and his parents had poured their life savings and a second mortgage into, and he was not yet making any kind of money from the business due to just starting out; As a result, he was unable to afford health insurance for himself due to the high cost of purchasing insuarance. Jesse tried for two straight weeks for someone to look at his knee and have an MRI done, but nobody would look at him because he had no insurance and he just kept getting shuffled around. Well, Jesse finally did get an MRI for his knee scheduled,…too bad it was 5 days after he was already dead from the bloodclot that had formed in his knee.”

Names of the Dead.