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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?
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From: Kenneth E. Phillipps5/11/2012 8:47:00 AM
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For Suzanne Black, the health-care plan passed by Congress at Obama's insistence isn't an abstraction or some distant political debate. It's the only reason she can continue to get coverage for the chemotherapy treatments that are keeping cancer at bay.

Black was 47 when she was diagnosed in March 2005 with stage IV ovarian cancer. Five years later, she received a four-sentence letter from her insurance company informing her she had exhausted three-quarters of her lifetime benefit limit.

"I would have to battle cancer and figure out how to pay for the medicines keeping me alive," Black said. "How does anyone do that?"

But the legislation passed by Congress banned insurers from imposing such lifetime limits on coverage.

seattletimes.nwsource.com
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