Lola Muhammad

Mother to a teenaged Medical Assistance enrollee diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia

Lola’s daughter was diagnosed with leukemia in 2018. A social worker advised Lola that her employer-based insurance may not cover the treatments her daughter needed, and helped connect her with Medicaid.

“The leukemia that she had, it's not as common as the general one. She has something called Philadelphia chromosome, and because of that, she required even more medication and chemotherapy. Medicaid helped completely with that: the blood transfusions, platelet transfusions, surgeries and ongoing care. My daughter fell into remission, and then just last year, the cancer came back. So we had to try another treatment plan, which is called CAR T-cell therapy, and again we needed Medicaid to cover that as well.” 

“Using just my own insurance would have caused a lot of delays, because it would not have covered everything. Ultimately, it could have been a life-or-death situation without Medicaid. Cancer can spread really fast.”

“To see my child go through that was so hard. I know that she could have really had a negative or a different outcome if it wasn't for Medicaid.”