Pollution, Poverty, and Voices
Wilmington, Los Angeles is home to the Port of Los Angeles, two rail yards, and the highest concentration of oil refineries anywhere in the state. For three generations my family – just one family in a vibrant Latino community of 60,000 people – has called Wilmington home. Growing up in a neighborhood with high rates of asthma, cancer, violence and poverty, it’s a place you basically work hard to leave.
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A close look at my own hospital bills
I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer a few days before Thanksgiving and a month after turning 26. While undergoing treatment, I was doing research on not-for-profit hospital charge practices. My own bills give me personal insight as I turned my own experience into a case study. The privileges of being insured and highly educated, didn’t make understanding my hospital bills any easier.
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