Between 2007 and 2012, Griffin Bonacci was injured in a pair of accidents that left him with five fractured disks in his back and neck and severe nerve damage throughout his body.
The Magna resident was nearly paralyzed from the neck down, he said, and he has undergone 14 surgeries to maintain function in his arms and hands.
Forced to sell his business, and facing the costs of health care specialists and medications, Bonacci said he spent several years with either very little medical care or none at all. He was ultimately enrolled in Utah’s Primary Care Network, a limited state-sponsored health care plan, and moved with other PCN patients into Medicaid under a partial expansion of the program enacted by lawmakers this year.