ALS

Lorie Sandoval, 53, is a middle-class wife and mother who had the misfortune of getting seriously sick in the midst of the Great Recession. Her diagnosis: ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis -- Lou Gehrig's disease) is tough enough, but the financial toll it has taken on the Sandoval family's...

If Lori Hall Steele could get off her ventilator long enough, she would have a heck of a story to write.It's a tale involving a brutal disease, a questionable health insurance policy, a mortgage company going about its devastatingly matter-of-fact business and of several friends who are determined...

What would happen if you developed a mystery illness, and what would happen if your insurance carrier found a way to weasel out of paying for it?Hopefully you'll never find out. But if want to know what it's like, you can ask Lori Hall Steele.I heard about her story earlier today, and I read about...