Last week we featured a video interview with Marcia Snell, a Sodexo worker at Ohio State University, in Columbus, Ohio. Unable to afford health insurance and necessary prescriptions for her heart condition, Marcia's health deteriorated and she recently underwent triple bypass heart surgery to save her life.

Today, the Columbus Dispatch featured Marcia in a story about unaffordable health insurance and the uninsured. The article focuses on national health reform, and highlights Marcia as a patient who would benefit from health reform in the United States.

New laws mandate that by 2014, employers will have to provide affordable health insurance options to their employees -- ensuring that workers like Marcia can get the coverage they need to survive. Unfortunately for the thousands of Sodexo workers like Marcia, who are struggling to survive with low wages and expensive health insurance, 2014 is a long way away.

For 10 years, Marcia worked at Sodexo without being offered health benefits. Now a full-time employee, health insurance options are provided -- but Marcia makes so little in wages that she can't afford the plans that Sodexo offers.

Snell said the out-of-pocket costs on plans with cheaper premiums were too high for her. And she said she couldn't afford $100 a week on her $280 weekly paycheck.

"It was Cadillac-priced insurance," she said. "It was cheaper to go to the doctor and pay my doctor."