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Shut Out on Healthcare After Storm
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Many hurricane victims don't qualify for aid if their insurance coverage vanished with their jobs.

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar
Times Staff Writer

October 9 2005

WASHINGTON; Like most of those whose lives were upended by Hurricane Katrina, 52-year-old school bus driver Emanuel Wilson can thank the federal government for the fact that he has money to pay rent. He's also been given food stamps to make sure he can buy groceries. And if he had young children, the government would almost certainly be helping them get back to school.

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