Did you all catch PBS’s Now this week. Here’s the blurb:

This week, NOW Senior Correspondent Maria Hinojosa meets two tight-knit Oklahoma families whose problems with private health insurance left them unable to get proper medical care — and on the brink of financial ruin.

One of those families – the O’Reillys — grapples with the issue of how to cover needed respiratory therapy treatment for their eight-year-old daughter, Sophie, who was denied coverage for what the insurance company labeled a “pre-existing condition.”

“People pretty frequently say, ‘Oh, you know, my plan works great for me’,” says Sophie’s mother Natalie O’Reilly. “And my answer to that is — insurance works really well until you need it. Until you really, truly need it.”

This show was a part of the “PBS Special Report on Health Care Reform”, originally broadcast on September 24, 2009.