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Linda and Larry Drain

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Larry and Linda need help and get notice!

7/7/2014

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Exciting news is always welcome. One of our own steps out to bring national attention to those suffering due to lack of medical healthcare coverage.  Links to articles in The Tennessean and USA Today are below.

Larry Drain, DBSA Tennessee Legislative Liaison, is well known among many for his staunch work in advocacy for health care for all. Larry and Linda Drain share their story, open up their lives, in hopes that many will find the help they need. After 33 years of marriage, Larry and Linda had no other choice but to separate in order for Linda to keep the healthcare coverage she so desperately needs. Also, Larry is without healthcare coverage because his income is "too low" to meet the requirements for coverage.


The NBC Today show asked to interview Larry and Linda. The interview is expected to happen today. Airing of their interview is expected some time this week. Let's all send our best wishes and thoughts to this couple as they do all that they can to see that no one else needlessly suffers in like fashion.


Respectfully, 
Steve Brannon
State Director
DBSA Tennessee


Links to Larry and Linda's story:

http://usat.ly/VSQXne

http://tnne.ws/VSQCAY


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It's working for 571,000

4/20/2014

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That's how many Tennesseans were kept out of poverty by Social Security Income each year, on average, from 2010 to 2012. Of those, over 372,000 were 65 or older. Nationally, Social Security kept more than 22 million people out of poverty; over 15 million were 65-plus, according to an AARP Public Policy Institute report. Go to aarp.org/bulletin for more information.
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