Chris Murphy: “Let me tell you a story. I know you have heard it, Ms. Wasserman Schultz, but it is pretty indicative of how low the…”

“Let me tell you a story. I know you have heard it, Ms. Wasserman Schultz, but it is pretty indicative of how low the other side is prepared to go to try to undermine children's health care. There is a family, the Frosts. Their son, Graeme Frost, doesn't have health insurance. He is 13 years old and suffers with severe brain injury as a result of a car crash. The family has been the face of some of this discussion. The father is self-employed. He is a woodworker. The mother has had some part-time jobs on and off. They are not living in destitute poverty, but they are playing by the rules and doing everything we ask them to do. They are paying their taxes and contributing to society. But because their son has a preexisting condition, they have been turned down for health insurance time and time and time again. And so they have to pay for injuries from a car crash for a 13-year-old boy out of their pockets. This is the kind of family that we are talking about. This is a family that has done everything that we have asked, a family that is getting by, but because their son has an injury that excludes him from most private insurance, he has no other recourse than the SCHIP program, a stopgap solution until the family finds some insurance program that does cover him. Well, what happened. This family had their whole life uncovered by the right wing that is trying to stop children's health care from going forward.”