Two teachers, in two different states with different insurance plans, experience the same impossible barrier: a healthcare system that will not act until they get sicker.
Early autoimmune symptoms are dismissed, testing is delayed, and intervention begins only after visible decline.
This episode reveals the architecture behind those delays—how diagnostic thresholds, insurance rules, and payment models reward crisis over prevention and force patients to wait for deterioration before help arrives.
A story about two lives, one system, and the pattern that repeats across American healthcare.
