“Hope” may be in the very ink on newsstands this week, but for Delena Belanger—an uninsured, unemployed 32-year-old nurse, who survived three brain surgeries in 2007 and is now in healthcare hell because of it (as reported by The District Weekly in “Pre-existing Conditions”)—that hope is getting harder to find.

Part-time waitress and nursing student Delena Belanger is in health care hell. But the tumor in her brain is the least of her problems
One autumn morning, a little more than a year ago, Delena Belanger woke up with a headache, an oozing ear and a fat lip.
The headache was old news. For more than nine [...]