[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 98 (Wednesday, June 13, 2018)]
[House]
[Page H5106]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  AMERICA'S GROWING HEALTHCARE CRISIS

  (Mrs. DINGELL asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  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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