Statement In Support Of Healthcare Reform

Statement

Madam Speaker:

Your health or your home? Americans should not have to make this choice, but all too often they have to because of the high cost of health care.

Lesley Czechowicz of Kihei, Maui, called my office yesterday to tell me about her 30-year-old niece. Last year, her niece collapsed and fell into a seizure. Medics rushed her to the hospital and ultimately she was diagnosed with epilepsy. Her niece had a part-time time retail job that did not offer health insurance to their employees.

Because of the emergency care and subsequent follow-up visits to the doctor, her niece was recently forced to sell her house so she could pay her medical bills. Lesley called me because she wanted to make sure I would support health care reform. She told me that while it's too late for her niece, it's not too late for our country. I could not agree more.

Private healthcare insurance companies run a business. Their goal is to make money for their shareholders. They pay their C.E.O.s millions of dollars a year while raising healthcare costs for the rest of us.

Whose side are you on?

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