. >> in march of this year, i was diagnosed with high dprad stage 2 hodgkins lymphoma. i was not insured. i i am apre school teacher for a school that doesn't offer health insurance. i didn't just think it was in affect in july, we got right into it and ordered so that we were actually insured on july 1. my doctor let me wait three months to start radiation. july 5 frment i started chemo. i'm doing radiation right now. i'm feeling great. if i didn't have this program, i wouldn't be foaling great. i would have ben i thank all of you and president obama. you do not know how this has changed my life and how grateful i am. >> i should have mentioned this for gail. children with preexisting conditions are covered. it is more complicated to get that whole pool of a bult. by 2014, we'll have a rule in place that they can't bar people, anybody, not just kids, from getting insurance. we got thousands of people across the country now signing up. you could get insurance for preexisting conditions. some people, you couldn't get insurance at all frment i want to open it up for any q

finally, some positive results for a medicine to treat hodgkin lymphoma sent shares of its maker, seattle genetics, jumping. the company plans to file for f.d.a. approval in the first half of next year. investors aren't waiting around, the stock popped almost 18% on 12 times its usual volume. and that's tonight's "market focus." >> tom: in our series, your mind and your money, produced in association with kiplinger's magazine, we've been looking at the effect of psychology on our investment decision making. an essential question of the series has been, what can we do to keep our biases and emotions from leading us into poor investing choices? to give us some answers, our guest tonight, frank murtha, a psychologist and co-author of the new book, "marketpsych, how to manage fear and build your investor identity." welcome to "nightly business report", nice to see you. >> great to be here. >> tom: it natural for investors to blame or credit the market when they make profit others lose money. but you say it's not about the market, it's about us. so explain that. >> yes. by far the biggest x fa

he has stage three hodgkin's lymphoma. >> right now i feel like i've got kryptonite inside of me.ren't supposed to get sick, that's the common misknown. but we do. but that doesn't mean we have to lie down and take it and be quiet about it. >> reporter: chris did what many in his generation would do. he took to the internet. instead of feeling story for himself, he declared war, shaved his head into a mohawk and proclaimed his battle cry. >> i've invited people to be frustrated and mad at cancer. you don't go making a battle cry at cancer and not invite people in to be mad at cancer with you. >> reporter: chris' friends and colleagues were glued to his writing. among them was feature reporter kevin pang. >> he really wasn't fighting this with an i'm scared, i'm going to cower, i'm sure i sense a bit of fear. but the way he was approaching this fight was really heads on, almost like a lineman. >> reporter: kevin teamed up with amy guth and others to create a viral get well card. >> it only felt right to approach this website the way that chris would which is to say, hey cancer [ble

. >> in march of this year i was diagnosed with high-grade stage 2 non-hodgkin's lymphoma. i'm feeling great. if it wasn't from this bill i probably wouldn't be feeling great because i would had been so stressed out and worrying about paying for my medical bills so i personally thank all of you and president obama so much. i mean, you do not know what -- how this has changed my life. >> voices we need to hear on "the ed show." americans, how can you be against that? republicans, well, i guess you could make the case that they just really don't give a damn about these people. they would rather let these people suffer so they can make a quick buck from the high-dollar donors in the insurance industry. i mean, that's what they've been fighting for. and at this very moment insurance companies are dropping coverage for sick kids. is it disgusting, you better believe it's disgusting. and fox news pastor, mike huckabee thinks covering sick kids -- well, it's a bad thing. >> it's such a warm message to say and we're not going to deny anyone from a pre-existing condition. okay, fine

in march of this year i was diagnosed with high grade, the stage to the non hodgkin's lymphoma. i was uninsured. i worked full-time as a preschool teacher at a montessori school that did not offer insurance to their employees. it was not fear that i had cancer, it was how was i going to pay for the outrageous bills that were going to come my way? we would have had to go into our retirement fund and use all that up. we have one son in college and one on the way in two years. we would have to use all the money we had saved the paper my medical bills. when we heard about the high risk pool and that it was in effect in july, we got right onto it. we call people, we got all the criteria in order so that we were actually insured on july 1. my doctor let me wait for three months to start chemotherapy and radiation, and on july 5 i started chemo. i am doing radiation right now. i am doing great. if it was not for this bill, i would probably not be feeling great, because i would be so stressed out and worried about paying for my medical bills. now i can focus on my health instead of focu

. >> reporter: there was an effort to personalize the law including a woman with non-hodgkins li s lymphoma and still has her insurance. >> it wasn't that what will i do, i have cancer but how will i pay for the bills coming our way? >> reporter: it's contrast from six months ago when healthcare was celebrated with great fanfare and joe biden offered this assessment in front of an open mic. but now, critics say unlike the people at the president's event, most americans have yet to see any benefit from this law. >> the fact is that the average person doesn't identify with that kind of setting. very few people experienced much of anything at all positive from this health reform. they're not going to for years to come. six months later, many democrats up for re-election are not mentioning healthcare as part of the campaign pitch. with recent polls suggesting that the issue is fifth behind the economy, jobs, federal spending and corruption with voters. today, member of the g.o.p. doctor's caucus in the house promised to work after the election on repealing the law and say the democrats oversold