What concerns me if I get sick and am I going to get the possible best care?

That frightens me more than anything.

Meet Penny.

Hi, my name is Penny Wingard.

Well, actually, it's Penalope Wingard.

My friend's called me Penny and I'm 56 years old.

Penny has lived in Charlotte, North Carolina for 20 years.

She doesn't have a lot of money, but her friends say she has a big heart.

That she's always generous with her family and other people in need.

But Penny has been going through a really tough time.

In 2012, she was laid off from her job as an after-school teacher.

And then in 2013, she was diagnosed with breast cancer.

But when they diagnosed, it came through that I was staged to head breast cancer.

I was devastated.

I was scared.

I didn't know what to do.

She went through chemotherapy and then radiation, but other health complications followed.

Penny developed high blood pressure and she had an aneurysm.

I had panic attacks years before this, but I wanted to therapy.

She wasn't able to control them, but my panic and anxiety attacks got worse after the diagnosis.

And when Penny's cancer treatment ended, she no longer qualified for Medicaid and she

couldn't afford insurance through the Affordable Care Act.

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