Natalie Kitroeff

And so I immediately called the person that we had talked to about getting her care.

And they said they had stopped giving care for anyone under the age of 19.

Wow.

We got on the Yale list for 2026 just in time to find out that they had shuttered their clinics.

And it just kind of feels like people are yanking away chairs like in this like musical chair nightmare for kids.

And we're just like running around and everybody's just like in this full scramble to try to

continue the health care.

They'd been banking on Connecticut as a safe haven, a place where everything would be easier for Ali.

But as it turned out, it wasn't as simple as blue state, immediate access to care.

The new rules and new threats from the Trump administration seemed to touch every corner of the country.

Clinics were closing just in anticipation of legal action from the federal government.

Allie's parents said it felt like the ground kept shifting underneath them.

Allie's parents were able to track down a new provider that agreed to treat someone her age, and they got an appointment.

But even that felt precarious.

We haven't had the first appointment yet.

This is where we think we'll go, but nothing feels sure right now.

So we have all, we have like plan A, B, C, and D. So it's private.

It's not part of the big hospital and won't hopefully be as vulnerable to Medicaid, Medicare sort of restrictions.

But yeah,

There's a lot of writing on the wall that there might be a federal rule coming in the next month or so.