[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 26945]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                          IN SUPPORT OF SCHIP

  (Mr. SESTAK asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. SESTAK. Mr. Speaker, I rise to speak in support of the SCHIP 
bill, which will provide health insurance for 4 million uninsured 
children, expanded dental care, and, for the first time, treating 
mental disabilities and mental illness on a par with physical 
disability. The bill also contains premium assistance subsidies, so 
that at least 70 percent of these children's parents remain in 
employer-based private health insurance plans. But I rise most because 
of what I saw when my 4-year-old daughter was given 3 to 9 months to 
live and we lived on a cancer ward in the city. And this Nation, 
because of my military service, gave me the best health care possible 
for her to have an opportunity, her roommate was a young 2\1/2\-year-
old boy diagnosed with acute leukemia whose parents did not have health 
insurance and social workers had to discuss whether that boy would, 
with my daughter, have an opportunity to live into life.
  I rise in support of this bill for that young boy.

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