Albert Lucas wouldn't want to be remembered for his cancer, but his wife, Linda, couldn't let his story go untold.

On his death bed, Albert Lucas asked his wife if he had received the doctor-recommended treatment for his cancer sooner, would things have been different.

"He wouldn't want anyone else to go through this," said Linda Lucas, of Cheyenne.

Albert Lucas died Dec. 21 after an almost two-year battle with cancer.

Linda Lucas said she spent more than four months battling to get their national, private insurance company to approve a treatment doctors said her husband needed to survive.

It's a battle she said she won too late.

It's a battle she says she never should have had to fight.

Linda Lucas along with others who have similar stories are trying to make sure other people in Wyoming don't have to wonder if things could have been different.

They have formed the Coalition for Wyoming Insurance Solutions for Healthcare, or C-WISH, to help solve problems people in Wyoming have accessing their health insurance benefits.

Check out Friday's Star-Tribune to read more about the new organization and the people involved.