Carolyn Maloney: “My colleagues, a great injustice is that they have considered a pregnancy as a preexisting condition. Now, you hear that…”

“My colleagues, a great injustice is that they have considered a pregnancy as a preexisting condition. Now, you hear that children are our future, and they are our future; yet in health care plans, to cover the cost of having a pregnancy--really, in some States, they didn't even offer the coverage. So there are many fine parts about this bill. But I think one of the strongest is that it has very strong maternal health care coverage and treats health care as health care and does not treat, really, the necessities of life, of having a child as a preexisting condition.”