Reply #99: You're singing the same song I've been singing

[Ms. Toad]

My daughter will shortly age out of our insurance, and will be unable to afford the high risk insurance available to her (currently at $14,000 a year). Her illness, with no unexpected expenses, costs around $60,000 a year. Someone with the same condition just had his 3rd liver transplant, at age at 23, over the weekend. Liver transplants are ultimately the only treatment - but the disease can come back and destroy the new liver. I think she'll overrun any of the current lifetime caps.

This bill will make it possible for her to obtain insurance.

I would prefer single payer - but I am not willing to live with the status quo until someone musters up the courage to try health care reform again in another decade or so.