There was no health
coverage. Growing up as a young girl in Hawaii, my greatest fear was
that my mother would get sick and, if she got sick, how were we going
to pay for her care, and how would she go to work? If she didn't go to
work, there would be no pay, there would be no money. I know what it is
like to run out of money at the end of the month. That was my life as
an immigrant here. Now, here I am, a U.S. Senator. I am fighting kidney cancer, and I am
just so grateful that I had health insurance so that I could
concentrate on the care that I needed rather than how the heck I was
going to afford the care that is going to probably save my life.
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