[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 163 (2017), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 148]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




           HOW THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT WORKS FOR CONSTITUENTS

  (Ms. JUDY CHU of California asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute.)
  Ms. JUDY CHU of California. Mr. Speaker, I rise today on behalf of 
Kalwis Lo, a young man from my district in San Gabriel, California, who 
told me how his life was saved by the Affordable Care Act.
  When he was just out of college, Kalwis was shocked when he was 
diagnosed with stage III Hodgkin lymphoma. He learned that this disease 
would end his young life if ignored, but was actually easily treatable 
in the early stages.
  No longer covered by his university, he applied to every type of 
health insurance he could, but he was denied every single time because 
of his preexisting condition. He knew that through insurance coverage 
he could get the chemotherapy treatments that could save his life, but 
with each denial, he felt more and more desperate.
  Then Kalwis learned about the Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan 
under the Affordable Care Act. This plan made insurance accessible to 
anyone that had been denied due to a preexisting condition. Thankfully, 
California was one of the States participating in the program. Finally, 
Kalwis got the chemotherapy he needed. He is one of millions of 
Americans given the promise of their lives back thanks to the 
Affordable Care Act.

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