[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 38 (Tuesday, March 16, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H1453]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          WE MUST HAVE REFORM

  (Mr. MOORE of Kansas asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. MOORE of Kansas. Madam Speaker, I want to read to you an email I 
just received from one of my staffers back in Overland Park, Kansas, my 
Congressional office there. It came at 11:55 a.m.:
  ``When I leave this job and have to seek new insurance, I will be 
largely uninsurable due to my preexisting condition, breast cancer, 
whether I show any remaining signs of the disease at that time or not.
  ``I was so fortunate last year to have this job and Federal employee 
insurance. The cancer treatment I received cost over $50,000. My 
husband and I would have lost every penny we had and then some if we 
had not had this quality coverage.
  ``Without a bill like this one, I will likely not have access to that 
kind of coverage ever again due to my cancer diagnosis at the age of 
24. Without quality coverage, and if, God forbid, I should ever have to 
go through this again, it would undoubtedly break us that time around.
  ``We must have reform.
  ``Thank you, Dennis.''
  This, folks, is what it's all about, people like this around the 
country. We've got to do something and reform our health insurance 
system, our health care system.

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