[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 48 (Tuesday, March 19, 2024)]
[House]
[Page H1224]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
NORTHWEST OHIO HEALTHCARE ROUNDTABLE
(Ms. KAPTUR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Speaker, during this Women's History Month, I rise to
tell the story of a constituent struggling to deal with our challenged
healthcare system.
Yesterday, I hosted a roundtable in Toledo, Ohio, with Democratic
Leader Hakeem Jeffries and our northwest Ohio healthcare community.
During this roundtable, a constituent told us a story of her niece
who was newly diagnosed with breast cancer. The niece is employed by a
company based in Texas, but she works remotely from northwest Ohio, and
she helps take care of her elderly grandmother.
Nonetheless, because her employer is out of State, local Ohio
facilities will not accept her health insurance because she is outside
the carrier network as it is called. Thus, for more than 2 weeks, she
has had to delay treatment for her newly diagnosed breast cancer
prognosis.
She wants to be near her family and not be alone while she receives
treatment, but, unfortunately, she is being squeezed between the sides
of our broken health insurance system.
If members of our medical community cannot even help their own family
navigate this system, something must be done to fix it. This provider
failure is simply unacceptable.
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