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‘An Arm and a Leg’: They Turned Grief Into Action
Can’t see the audio player? Click here to listen. In 2004, 24-year-old Manny Lanza urgently needed surgery for a life-threatening brain condition. But he didn’t have insurance, so his hospital refused to schedule the treatment — until it was too late. Manny died waiting.  In the months that followed, Manny’s parents, Reynaldo Prieto and Levia Lanza, fought to make their son’s story known — and to make sure it didn’t happen again. They came up empty … until a reporter from the New York Post took their call. Then, things changed fast. What Manny’s parents didn’t know: The fight had already begun years before Manny’s illness. Folks like Elizabeth Benjamin, then a Legal Aid

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