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Edie Sundby- has stage 4 cancer and lost her insurance coverage

The op-ed from Wall Street provided a story with a Stage 4 cancer patient, losing her health insurance due to the Obamacare (Affordable Care Act). This is not the only horror story about Americans losing their insurance, unable to acquire another form of insurance due to the issues of healthcare exchanges. As these stories unfold, you have Harry Reid coming out on the floor calling all these stories lies. Is Edie Sundby just another liar?

Edie Sundby is only one of 900,000 Californians losing their insurance plans, due to the Obamacare regulations. Obamacare requires specific regulations and if these regulations are not met, then insurance companies are forced to drop those policies.

Sundby’s experience mirrors many others. She was forced to either choose a government heath exchange and lose access to her cancer doctors or choose insurance outside of the exchange. The insurance outside of the exchange cost an average 40% to 50% more. Many will not have that privilege due to the high cost.

After four weeks of research, Sundby still does not have an affordable health care and time is running out. Discussing directly with government exchange counselors, insurance companies, and other medical providers one conclusion remains; everyone remains confused.

The Blame Game

To combat the article and story, left-wing sites are writing up their own articles which attempt to shift the blame to Insurance companies rather than the Obamacare regulations.

The article titled, “The Real Reason That The Cancer Patient Writing In Today’s Wall Street Journal Lost Her Insurance,” Igor Volsky wrote, “Sundby shouldn’t blame reform — United Healthcare dropped her coverage because they’ve struggled to compete in California’s individual health care market for years and didn’t want to pay for sicker patients like Sundby.”