angela tang is also the mother of a pandas patient who says the california bill would require insuranceompanies to cover dr. prescribed treatments which could include id eiji and other drugs. >> if governor newsom would sign this law, we would be able to be a role model and a very large domino in getting the rest of the states, these 38 other states without protections, to get them to follow suit. >> if passed, the legislation would help patients like tessa get the medicine when they need it. >> when i am waiting for the medicine, i feel upset, kind of sad that it did not come , stuff like that. >> although she suffered some brain damage because of earlier missed diagnosis and treatment delays, tessa is enrolled in the college of adaptive arts and works part-time at a bakery. doctors say her therapies are working. for now, the disease is in remission. >> we did reach out to tessa's health insurance provider for comment on this but so far have not heard back. >>> it is often recognized as a smoker's disease but the cdc says up to 40,000 lung cancers each year are diagnosed in people who