Friday, June 13, 2014

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I'm Covered Stories: A Persistent Dad Wins the Day

Posted June 13, 2014
By Judy Sarasohn, Public Affairs, Department of Health and Human Services

Phillip Wise, a retired Air Force medical technician I spoke to recently, has a favorite saying: Persistence beats resistance. "Otherwise, you're just giving up," he told me. That core belief helped him recover from the horrific Operation Babylift crash during the evacuation of orphaned Vietnamese babies from Saigon in 1975 -- and it stood him good stead through the years.

And it has most certainly helped him as a father, especially when it came to helping LaNika, his occasionally stubborn daughter. This is the Father's Day story of a dad whose nagging convinced his daughter to finally take control of her health, and why he felt it was so important that she get covered.

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