Issue Position: Improving Health Care

Issue Position

Health care is central to Bridget and her family. Bridget has been a working nurse throughout her adult life and her father, Dr. Edwin Malloy, is a retired orthopedic surgeon.

Bridget's family knows how the healthcare system works on the inside and just how difficult it can be to navigate from the outside.

At the age of four, Bridget and her husband Joseph's oldest child was diagnosed with childhood leukemia. Thanks to the wonderful doctors, nurses, research team, and four years of treatment at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Bridget and Joe's son returned home healthy and cancer free.

But like so many families, Joe and Bridget were faced with the reality of paying unimaginable premiums due to their son's pre-existing condition.

As local small business owners paying out of pocket for health insurance, Joe and Bridget were unable to afford these new and very high premiums for health insurance.

Bridget returned to her nursing career so that she and Joe could afford the health care their son and the rest of their family required. But for too many hardworking men and women in the 114th District - and across Pennsylvania - skyrocketing health care costs are impossible to afford.

We must do better when it comes to securing affordable health insurance - especially when you have a sick child.

Bridget entered this race for many personal reasons, but none with more personal importance than increasing awareness of the need to secure affordable health care and changing our approach - especially for those who survive a life-threatening illness and come out the other side with a pre-existing condition.

We must do better. And we will do better.

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