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Amputees, advocates lobby for bill - 8.28.07
In a few weeks, a busload of amputees and advocates from the Roanoke area will head to Richmond to lobby for a bill that would force insurance companies to increase coverage for prosthetic devices. As WVTF's Dutchie Mirolli reports, some see it as a financial issue, while others see it as a matter of principle. Listen.
Certified prosthetist Sidney Nicely works in a lab at Virginia Prosthetics in Roanoke.
Virginia Prosthetics CEO and President Doug Call holds a top-of-the-line prosthetic.
Grant Dawyot lost part of his leg in an automobile accident in 1992 and is a patient at Virginia Prosthetics.
Grant Dawyot shows off his prosthesis.
(Photos by: Dutchie Mirolli, WVTF News)
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