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One thing I asked when this first came up, but never followed up on when it wasn't answered (afaik it was never addressed), was about insurance. As I understand it, if she had insurance that was going away, and they got new insurance without a lapse in coverage, he condition is not considered pre existing. Again, I am not positive of the law here, but I believe you are only really screwed if you let your coverage lapse. It seems crazy to be raising money to pay hospital bills if in fact you only have to raise money to cover the cost of insurance.

FWIW, my wife has had two forms of cancer in the past 5.5 years (unrelated, that is, the second was not metastatic, which would have had an extremely bad prognosis). If anyone ever wonders why I harp on health insurance so much, there's your answer.