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more importantly, however, these terminations are extremely significant to the tens of thousands of people who needed health care and couldn't get it during these five years because their policies were rescinded. in my opinion, of course, the solution to these problems is to ,,,, comprehensive health rbrb)) mr. chairman, i'm pleased that you're holding this hearing and i thank you for the time allotted me. >> mr. barton, for opening statement, please? >> thank you, mr. chairman. this is my month for witnesses from texas. last week we had the owner of carlisle chevrolet. today we have...

that we're sitting here today hearing these horror stories of patients who have been caught up ,,,,n inefficient, @@arbrb time every day watching young patients with no hair, with i.v.s in their arms or in their chest going into a port, walking around and taking care of each other much better than our health care industry takes care of patients in their time of need. and it's a slander on the names of the health care professionals who do everything they can to keep patients like your brother, like my little brother, alive when we don't give them the support that they need after they ...

work those things out in advance as we have in most hearings in the past. >> i agree. >> today's hearing is the second in a series of hearings investigating the individual health insurance market. approximately 16 million americans have individual health insurance policies. once people apply and are issued their insurance cards, they breathe a sigh of relief and figure their health cares are covered. unfortunately that sigh of relief may turn into a frenzied panic if the friday before a monday a patient is to undergo a double mastectomy she receives a call from he...

our panel today are for-profit r was the cross and blue shield. i wonder whether the cross and blue shield is not in one of our panelists today. clearly as a non-profit company, they would not have a purely profit driven motived to engage in this type of behavior. this is curious. i think there are a number of questions that we would like to propose to a company that functions as a non-profit. it is the best possibility of each insurance company to do their due diligence before contracts are entered into. they should not have a lazy and incomplete underwriting. >> thank you for havin...