This family is the face of the ObamaCare devastation on a woman who has cancer and her large family. She had an insurance plan that covered the drug that is keeping her alive. She liked the plan and it was serving her well as she fights cancer. And now she doesn’t have her plan or her life-saving medication — all thanks to the president’s signature legislation and the like-minded Leftists who continue to support ObamaCare. This piece is written by the victim’s son.

Then on Feb. 12, just before going into (yet another) surgery, she was informed by Humana that it would not, in fact, cover her Sandostatin, or other cancer-related medications. The cost of the Sandostatin alone, since Jan. 1, was $14,000, and the company was refusing to pay.

The news was dumbfounding. This is a woman who had an affordable health plan that covered her condition. Our lawmakers weren’t happy with that because . . . they wanted plans that were affordable and covered her condition. So they gave her a new one. It doesn’t cover her condition and it’s completely unaffordable.

Though I’m no expert on ObamaCare (at 10,000 pages, who could be?), I understand that the intention—or at least the rhetorical justification—of this legislation was to provide coverage for those who didn’t have it. But there is something deeply and incontestably perverse about a law that so distorts and undermines the free activity of individuals that they can no longer buy and sell the goods and services that keep them alive. ObamaCare made my mother’s old plan illegal, and it forced her to buy a new plan that would accelerate her disease and death. She awaits an appeal with her insurer.

We must get rid of ObamaCare. We must replace it with a consumer-driven model that allows people to choose a plan that works for their needs and infuses the health insurance/health care delivery system with competition that will reduce costs. You can follow the latest on ObamaCare by following JLF’s Katherine Restrepo, health and human services policy analyst.

And finally and most importantly, pray for this family.