A family’s desperate choice: the massive debt to save their daughter

In our series 'The Cost of Denial' NBC News’ Kate Snow meets with the parents who decided to keep their daughter in a specialized mental health care facility despite knowing it didn’t take insurance. They hoped they’d work out a deal for coverage but now find themselves more than a million dollars in debt. They believed that without the treatment, their daughter would die. 

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