Local cancer patient fighting for insurance changes

Top: Marcia McNannay, center, with husband Rick, right, and Randall, the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance employee who helped her every day of her treatment, after her graduation from treatment. Bottom: A Colfax Police patch honoring breast cancer awareness. Photos from SCCA Twitter courtesy McNannay.

What’s worse than being diagnosed with cancer? Having cancer while fighting with your insurance company to get treatment is what Marcia McNannay of Palouse learned.

“That time that you sit and wait is worse than the treatment,” she said of the four months she battled with her insurance company to get...