America's Growing Healthcare Crisis

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Mrs. DINGELL. Mr. Speaker, I rise to share with my colleagues the crisis facing families across the country whose fear is growing daily about their healthcare.

This week, I took John to the doctor, and so many people stopped us, it ended up being an unscheduled town hall meeting.

A 50-year-old woman who had had a stroke last year, who was now walking and talking, scared to death that she would lose her insurance and about what she would do.

A mother of an 8-year-old who has juvenile diabetes crying and saying: What am I going to do? I don't know how I will afford it, or if her life could even end.

There were 10 more stories that morning. This isn't a war of words. These are real people with real consequences, and, for some, it is a matter of life and death. They are depending on all of us. We must come together.

So many of my colleagues said: ``We will never go back to the days that people would be denied insurance because of preexisting conditions.'' Let's work together to help people who need us.

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