On the recordJanuary 6, 2011
I thank the distinguished Congresswoman from Maryland for her comments, and I'm actually kind of glad that Congressman King brought up these major benefits which are now helping families across this country. Ms. Edwards talked about the benefit of adding your son or daughter under 26 to your policy, and Mr. King basically pooh-poohed that--I don't know if that's exactly a good legislative term, but kind of ridiculed that. And then he talked about lifetime limits and how lifetime limits were not necessarily something that we should worry about in spite of the fact that almost a million Americans a year, historically, over the last few years, have gone bankrupt because they either had no insurance or their insurance was inadequate and they lost everything they had because of health care costs, because of a cancer diagnosis or serious accident. These are real-life stories. These are not abstractions.
