Yes, and I want to ask you, Ms. Ashley, as a fellow mom here, you would much rather--you, as a nurse, identified that your son had severe psychiatric problems from an early stage but you didn't have any recourse to get him the kind of treatment he needed except for continually taking him to the emergency room.
DeGette emphasizes the challenges parents face in obtaining mental health treatment for their children.
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If you’re going to be doing quality health care legislation, you should be able to do it in a bipartisan way.
All of these radicals who are coming to the House, thinking they’re going to be able to pass a very broad bill like Medicare-for-All right away, they’re going to run into a brick wall immediately.
The government should never have the right to use health insurance coverage as a targeted weapon, should never deliberately strip certain people of the freedom to make their own medical decisions.
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