Sen. Cortez Masto Issues Statement on Healthcare
Madam President, I rise today to urge my colleagues to reauthorize Federal funding for the
In 1997, the bill to create the
Children's healthcare is not a partisan issue in
Today, 9 million children from low-income families nationwide, including 27,000 from
In 2008, the last time funding for CHIP was on the chopping block, Senator
Governors from both parties, medical professionals, care providers, and advocates from across this Nation have already called on
But don't ask me why funding for CHIP is important. Listen to the voices of parents who lie awake at night, worried that the cough they are hearing down the hall in their child's room will not go away on its own. It is scary enough to have a sick child. No parent should have to live with the additional fear that they will not be able to afford the care their child needs. No parent should have to choose between treating a cough that has been getting worse and worse for weeks and paying next month's rent. People across the country are working every single day just to make ends meet. CHIP is their lifeline.
Just ask Lisa, a self-employed mom. Her children are able to see the whiteboard in math class because CHIP allowed her family to afford glasses.
Ask Glenna, whose daughter broke her arm on the monkey bars when she was 4. Without CHIP, Glenna would have had to take out loans to pay off that medical bill.
Hear from Vanessa about the excellent healthcare her daughter received after she contracted meningitis at age 12, which was paid for with health insurance Vanessa purchased through CHIP. Vanessa says that CHIP is the reason her daughter is alive today.
These are just three of the countless stories I have heard from people who just don't know what they would do if private health insurance were the only option available to their family.
Illness, injury, these things happen. All of us get sick sometimes, but going bankrupt trying to pay for your son or daughter's medical treatment, that is not normal. That should not be something we accept as part of our everyday lives.
Every time I go home to
We should be working night and day around the clock to fix our healthcare system and relieve the burden of healthcare costs on working people.
Allowing funding for CHIP to expire, allowing State governments to go bankrupt, allowing rural hospitals and our community medical centers to shut their doors and go out of business, this is not what the American people sent us here to do. We are the representatives of this great Nation, and it is time to act like it and stop playing politics with children's health.
I yield the floor.
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