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Medical Bills Bankrupt Families of Mentally Ill Children

Ted Morrissey, a middle-class Nebraska insurance agent with a good health care policy, has spent "hundreds of thousands of dollars" on treatments for his 16-year-old daughter who has complex mental health problems that get worse by the day. At the age of 5, Jaimie was diagnosed with Tourette syndrome, as well as accompanying obsessive-compulsive disorder. "She had no control over her muscle movement, so we would wrap her in a sheet like a burrito just to keep her from straining her...Full Story
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