Ron Klink said "I became aware of a 4-year-old boy named Sean Brake from a place outside of my district called Plum Borough. The local TV station was doing a story about the fact that Sean's father worked for the insurance company and Sean at the age of 4 had gotten a rare form of cancer, but it was a highly treatable form. With a bone marrow transplant which would cost somewhere around $200,000 or more, there was a 90 percent chance that Sean would survive, according to the people at Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh, one of the most renowned children's hospitals in the Nation. Yet the insurance company would not pay for this. I heard this on the television; and I said, This is amazing. Being a father, here is a 4-year-old child who has a 90 percent chance of treatment if he gets the treatment or he is going to die." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordJanuary 28, 1998

I became aware of a 4-year-old boy named Sean Brake from a place outside of my district called Plum Borough. The local TV station was doing a story about the fact that Sean's father worked for the insurance company and Sean at the age of 4 had gotten a rare form of cancer, but it was a highly treatable form. With a bone marrow transplant which would cost somewhere around $200,000 or more, there was a 90 percent chance that Sean would survive, according to the people at Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh, one of the most renowned children's hospitals in the Nation. Yet the insurance company would not pay for this. I heard this on the television; and I said, This is amazing. Being a father, here is a 4-year-old child who has a 90 percent chance of treatment if he gets the treatment or he is going to die.

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Ron Klink

Democratic · Pennsylvania

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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the challenges of insurance coverage for medical treatment during a speech.

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