00:00Where is your compassion?
00:02Where's the care that you showed me
00:05when I was diagnosed with my illness?
00:16I lost a sister to pneumonia
00:21when she was only two years old in Japan.
00:25She died at home.
00:29Not in a hospital, where maybe her life could have been saved.
00:37It's hard for me to talk about this.
00:38I think you can tell.
00:40Growing up as a young girl in Hawaii,
00:43my greatest fear was that my mother would get sick.
00:47And if she got sick, how are we gonna pay for her care?
00:51How would she go to work?
00:53And now, here I am, a United States Senator,
00:56I am fighting kidney cancer.
00:59And I'm just so grateful that I had health insurance
01:03so that I could concentrate on the care that I needed,
01:07rather than how the heck I was going to afford the care that
01:11was going to probably save my life.
01:15And guess what?
01:16When I was diagnosed with kidney cancer
01:19and facing my first surgery, I heard
01:22from so many of my colleagues, including
01:24so many of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, who
01:28wrote me wonderful notes, sharing with me
01:31their own experience with major illness in their families
01:36or with their loved ones.
01:38You showed me your care.
01:40You showed me your compassion.
01:42Where is that tonight?
01:45Mr. President, I will yield the floor
01:49by asking my friends to show the compassion to everybody
01:54in this country that you showed me.
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