care for morealth to dollar -- for my two with cystic fibrosis. go from insurance company to insurance company. i say i can pay something. give me what i can pay for. the answer is always the same, no. what do they tell you? last meeting i had, i was talking to the agent making the same case i've made so many times before. he looked at me and said you don't understand. we don't ensure burning houses. this man looked at me with tears in his eyes and said they called my little girls burning houses. i couldn't get that and other stories out of my mind. when we didn't get everything we wanted, when we got knocked down, i said we have to figure out how we make progress as much as possible. i got to work with democrats and republicans to find common ground, to provide health care's most vulnerable among us, our children. we were able to pass the children's health insurance program which now is a lifeline for 8 million kids across america. [applause] up on the dream of universal health care, not for a second. an 8 million kids, it was in everything we wan