A woman who was once driven into bankruptcy by medical bills before the Affordable Care Act (ACA) existed says the law, also known as Obamacare, later gave her a second chance at life, just as she faced a devastating cancer diagnosis.

Three years before the ACA was implemented, in 2007, Eugenia Horan's husband's appendix ruptured, and an appendectomy spiraled into a medical emergency when complications set in, leaving the uninsured couple with a $400,000 bill.

The pair from Syracuse, New York, declared bankruptcy and were no longer in the red by 2018, but the following year, Horan, now 52, was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. She told Newsweek . "I’m alive because my cost of care was covered."

After her husband's ordeal, he briefly obtained insurance, but couldn’t afford to

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