Insurance denied her cancer treatment. One email changed everything.

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After her insurer denied a milder chemotherapy her oncologist prescribed, breast cancer patient Elizabeth Nicholas emailed the CEO — and got it approved 14 hours later. NBC News' Kate Snow reports.

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