Rob Andrews: “This is a good bill and I rise in support of it and the rule that supports it. It is a good bill because it works for a…”

“This is a good bill and I rise in support of it and the rule that supports it. It is a good bill because it works for a number of Americans. But we have some work left to do for a lot of other Americans. This bill says to someone who has had breast cancer or a triple bypass operation, if you lose your job and you have to look for new coverage, you cannot be denied that coverage because you were so unlucky that you got sick. That is a good thing. I believe there are mechanisms in this bill that would make sure that you would be offered that coverage at about the same rate everybody else would, and that is a very good thing. This bill says to the person who is the next victim of corporate downsizing that they will have the right to stay in the health care plan that they were in when they were working until they find their next job, or maybe even after they find their next job for awhile. They will have to pay for it, and that is very difficult for a lot of people, but the fact of the matter is it is a lot better to be able to write a check to stay in the plan that they are already in than to have to go look for new coverage after they have lost their job, and that is a very good thing.”