My father is a navy veteran, has worked all his life, is a wonderful father, and believes in an honest days work for an honest days pay. This last year he has been in and out of the hospital due to his diabetes and just recently suffered a heart attack. Because he was unable to work, his job had to let him go which left him without health insurance and a way to pay for health insurance. His doctors refused to see him because he did not have insurance, his medicine bills took whatever little money that was being brought in by my mother, leaving next to nothing left to live on choosing which bills should get paid each month. On mother's day this year I received a frantic phone call from my mother saying my dad didn't know who she was or where he was, his blood sugar had fallen to the point of dementia. She was hoping I knew what to do, and I told her to get off the phone with me and call the paramedics. The only thing she could say was how are we going to pay for this. No one should ever have to make the choice between saving their loved ones life or having money for rent next month. There are too many hardworking individuals like my father that don't qualify for government programs and are being overlooked, and reform must be made in health care so that no one will ever have to make the same choice my mother did.