[Press Release: More residents with AIDS swapping life insurance for cash]
One of 13 items in the
series:
Viaticals, 1993 available on this site.
Description
A press release about Houston terminally ill residents selling their life insurance policies for cash to pay for their medicine, debt, medical bills, and funerals. Through a viatical settlement they were able to pay their expenses.
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A press release about Houston terminally ill residents selling their life insurance policies for cash to pay for their medicine, debt, medical bills, and funerals. Through a viatical settlement they were able to pay their expenses.
Preferred Citation:
Dennis Vercher Collection (The Dallas Way) (AR0789), University of North Texas Special Collections
Collections
This text is part of the following collections of related materials.
LGBT Collections
Publications pertaining to issues relevant to the LGBT community. The collection includes The Dallas Voice, a weekly newspaper for the gay community in North Texas that has been published since 1984.
Named for journalist and activist Dennis Vercher. These materials, which include correspondence, newspaper clippings, financial documentation and press releases, relate to LGBT activism, legislation and HIV/AIDS.