On the recordMarch 27, 2019
I want to take this moment to go down a very tough, and for many families, humiliating journey down memory lane. Memories full of sick mothers and fathers, sick children, and maybe even those who lost their life because they could not get affordable healthcare. Apparently, this administration doesn't understand; for those of us who were here before the Affordable Care Act, the years and years of work, the thousands of pages of testimony, the many different committees--even my committee, the Committee on the Judiciary--we heard the pain and cries of those who did not have health insurance. Maybe he doesn't know--the administration--the story of the 8-year- old girl whose family actually took her to the office of the insurance company--she had leukemia--to beg for coverage. And they denied her, and she died. Maybe they did not hear the story of the mother whose son had hepatitis because he had not been able to overcome his drug addiction, even though he was a lawyer, and his only basis of healthcare was the emergency room in a city hospital; Or maybe the doctor who drove to another city hundreds of miles away to get his intern son, put him in the backseat of his car and drive him all the way back so that he could be inside the jurisdiction in which his healthcare covered.…
