[pstrateman]

How does this article not mention anywhere that she had brain cancer?

That's almost certainly the answer to the headline.

[dang]

(We changed the headline to the less baity HTML doc title.)

[Ey7NFZ3P0nzAe]

Well it has a dramatic impact if you live in a place where cancer can bankrupt you, not so much if you're Swedish maybe?

[tverbeure]

According to Wikipedia, She currently lives in LA.

[kadoban]

Life-threatening illnesses have a dramatic impact on people beyond financially.

[AStonesThrow]

Giertz did live in her native Sweden until 2016, but she now lives in these United States.

Her citizenship is not mentioned in Wikipedia, so her health insurance coverage may be a matter of private, personal funds, because she probably has neither Medicaid nor FTE with benefits.