What Deadline?

I’ll never forget the relief in his voice as we drove home from a session of radiation treatment back in December of 2013. Andrew, a 26-year-old transgender man who would soon become my husband, had been diagnosed with cancer three months earlier.

While he was one of the fortunate Americans able to access health insurance through his employer, he knew that if he had found himself in different circumstances, he may have made a different decision. He may have chosen not to get health insurance.