Part of the problem is her parents live in Taiwan and she only has the Rutgers Medical Insurance. They can't transport her back to Taiwan because she is in such serious condition.

At first, the doctors were unable to diagnosis her. She also had three heart attacks back in December before she was finally diagnosed later in the month.

We are in the process of planning the possibility of a benefit concert.

Not everyone knows her, and people don't often care if they don't know the person. But it's such a scary situation - it could happen to anyone.

Even if [Pan] recovers, there will still be a huge cost afterward - even if Medicaid recovers a lot of the expenses.

[Karen Lundegaard] was quite frail, debilitated by metastatic breast cancer, which she had long known she had but for which she had been unable to get adequate treatment because she lacked medical insurance. ("If you mention anything about me," she said, "tell people that.")