Despite potentially deadly seizures, Dandridge woman losing TennCare

Full story: WVLT-TV Knoxville

"I'm 38 years old and I don't want to die." According to TennCare, Tonya Duford is days away from having no health insurance and no ability to pay for her anti-seizure drug called Keppra, with an out-of-pocket cost of one-thousand dollars a month.

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