ms. baiten. am pr am i pronouncing it right? >> it doesn't matter. >> ms. baiten, we heard and listened very intensely to your testimony and quite compelling and i wanted to take one quote from your written testimony and i think you said when you get on a waiting list cancer grows. and i think that was in reference to the fact that as you just testified to doctor burgess that you were on that waiting list at the county hospital. there was an alternative but, thank god that your congressman and my colleague, joe barton was able to intervene and you got the care at the private hospital and by your physician that you trusted and wanted to do the surgery. this statement you made is absolutely right. i don't know if you know it but i'm a physician, too. an obgyn doctor. your statement is a profound one, indeed. when you get an a waiting list, cancer grows. and when we look at statistics of countries where you routinely get put on a waiting list like the uk and others, and in particular, in the treatment of breast cancer, in our country, where you don't get put on

ms. baiten. >> absolutely. until you try to use it they just keep taking your money. >> as i listened to your testimony, ms. baiten, you're an rn and you were an attorney and you seem like you had access to people who could help you on this. what happens in your groups and people you talk to. what happens to people that don't have those support mechanisms in the family. ms. horton? >> they fall through the cracks. there's nothing -- even having radiologyists in my family i didn't have the opportunity to consult them before filling out the application. they live across the country with children and work all the time. i don't know what those people would do. >> ms. raditz? >> as i stated in my testimony, my brother was very fortunate because of the fact that i have education and i know lots of people. and even all the attorneys that i know, and judges who i went to ask for help, did not know what to do in a situation other than go through the court system. unfortunately, when you have cancer or you're in a positi