Highlighted in the documentary include:
 Carter Dougherty, a four year old, has a primary immune deficiency and relies on weekly immune globulin therapy. Carter's mother is a health care professional and administers his therapy to him. In his four years of life, she has had to appeal her insurance company’s denial of coverage at least twice a year and has had to pay large out-of-pocket expenses. Carter has been hospitalized without his therapy and his mom worries every time he gets an infection if he is going to end up in the hospital. She also worries if the insurance company is going to deny the one therapy that keeps her son as infection free as possible to live the life he was born to live.
 Abbie Cornett, a state senator from Nebraska, has three daughters and has a primary immune deficiency disease. She went through most of her life sick with severe infections not knowing what was wrong with her. She finally was diagnosed with common variable immune deficiency and was prescribed IVIG. On IVIG, she has been able to be a mother and senator; however she has been denied coverage recently by her insurance company deeming that IVIG is not medically necessary for her condition. This led to her developing pneumonia and missing days of being a senator.
 Lt. Col. Eugene Richardson is a Vietnam veteran and has chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP). He fought for our country and when Medicare cut reimbursement for IVIG, Col Richardson could not find a provider that was able to sustain the loss in treating Col. Richardson with IVIG. This lead to Col. Richardson becoming paralyzed and being admitted to the hospital on more than one occasion. Today, Col. Richardson can only tolerate one brand of IVIG and travels two hours each way, two days in a row to get the one brand that he can tolerate. He considers himself lucky because at least he is getting the therapy that is keeping him alive and preventing him from becoming paralyzed.
 Michelle Vogel, patient advocate who founded the Alliance for Plasma Therapies. Michelle was working at a patient support organization when the Medicare cuts in reimbursement for IVIG occurred. She received hundreds of phone calls from patients no longer able to recieve their IVIG. She worked hard to help these patients while working with Congress and Medicare to find solutions to the problems plaguing the patient community. Because these access problems continued to grow and affect public and private insured patients, Michelle founded a new nonprofit organization to help all patients who rely on IVIG as a lifesaving therapy. |
