i have been a practicing ob/gyn for the last six years. so this is from dr. kirsch. as chief to have st. luke's medical staff i'm writing to express support for the master plan. served as a member of the blue ribbon panel and can confirm they have revised plans to reform to the recommendations of the panel. in particular, cpmc has committed $250 million for the initial phase of rebuilding the st. luke's campus prucking an entirely new in-patient facility. it is also important to know that -- these recommendations were based on the analysis expressed by the community outreach task force as well. we who practice at st. louis -- will vastly improve the health care resources for necessary inpatient care and in addition it will facilitate full access to our patients for the service s of the entire cpmc system of care. for these reasons, the medical executive committee of st. lukes strongly supports the plans to rebuild cpmc. thank you. >> good evening president tierney and president olague and commissioners of health and planning commission. i'm the chief administrative o

i started working at an ob/gyn at the hospital. you might ask why would somebody join the staff of a hospital that is battle weary and has many failing equipments and being in a recession, serving poor people and i really can't say anything other than how could you not work there. it is one of the best and exciting interesting places to work in the city. my history at st. luke's goes back as a medical student when i recruited patients at the hospital. we are at the intersection of diverse neighborhoods in the city and in any one day, i really -- it is difficult to see people from any background in the city. medical education activities were suspended during the uncertain future of our -- and i'm happy to say they have resumed. we continue to stimulate the minds of the next generation of practitioners and i encourage you, expeditiously approve plans because we're really excite and cannot wait and there would be no shortage of committed people to work in this hospital in our area of the city. thank you. >> our final five speakers. de

i performed with my family straight through until i was a resident, an ob/gyn.l went to college in new jersey. why? because monomouth college was five minute away. we live inside long branch, and my father said that's as far as i want my daughters to go. now, we had planned to go to howard. oh, no, it was too far away. in order to keep the band together. now, you can go to college, you can do well, but the dream still had to be realized. now, i went to a very, very small teachers' college, but my professors at the university were dedicated. and from the university i went to columbia college of physicians and surgeons which was, basically, a quantum leap from a small teachers' college to an ivy league university that was the first medical school to award the md degree in the colonies. so here i am, a physician. and that brings me to a point where i wrote the second book, "something to prove." i want to read some excerpts out of the second book because you think you've got the brass ring, you know? you're a doctor. i'm a doctor. i have an md from columbia. so what

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there is a need for a qualified ob/gyn doctor. >> we even called the doctor but he was not here.ut if she is about to deliver, we can take the delivery, we do it. >> ( translated ): sakina labored in pain before the second baby was born. it was close to an hour before the boy was born. he came forth having problems. >> we need oxygen. we don't have oxygen >> ( translated ): my son needed medical attention, and we rushed him to the emergency pediatric ward. >> while the second twin was being stabilized, sakina's condition worsened. she was diagnosed with post- partum hemorrhage. >> one of our main problems here-- how to get blood. the husband has to go and donate. before, we normally asked red cross. they mobilized people to come and donate blood to the hospital. but now due to this hiv, so we stopped this. they have to go and check the blood group of the husband. then they compare if it's the same with her own. if it's not the same blood group. >> a positive. not the same. >> the husband must buy the blood. >> muhammed's search for sakina's rare blood type took him to surrounding

way it was for 13 years, and i performed with my family until i was straight through a resident in ob/gynto mama's college in new jersey. why? because it was five minutes away from long branch, new jersey. we lived in long branch, and father said that's as far as he wanted to go. we planned howard, and he said no, that's too far away to keep the band together. you can go to college, do well, but the dream still had to be realized. i went to a small teacher's college, but my professors here were dedicated, and from that university, i went to columbia, college of physicians and surgeons which was basically a quantum leap to an ivy league university, the first college to award the md degree in the colonies. this is when i wrote the second book, "something to prove." i want to read some excerpts because you think you got the brass ring, you are a doctor. i'm a doctor from columbia, what do you do? again, i just wanted to read to you what doctors do, and this is from the first chapter, first page of something to prove. chapter one, the subbasement and the grass ceiling. new york hospital corne

illegal for insurance companies to require women to obtain preauthorizations or referrals or access to ob/gyn care. women pay up to 48% more in premiums than men. this kind of discrimination because of the health care law will be outlawed. issuers will be banned from gender ratings to charge women and small businesses with predominately female workforces more for the same coverage. in the same year, 2014, health care reform also makes it illegal for insurers to deny health care coverage on the basis of preexisting conditions. designations which have often been used to discriminate against women. many women across the country today are denied coverage for preexisting conditions such as breast or cervical cancer. having had a c-section or even just being pregnant. some women have even been denied coverage for having sought out medical care for domestic or sexual violence. it's critical that we ensure that low-income women have access to health care during these critical times and we ensure all women have rang s. to health care. so -- have access to health care. so i urge my colleagues to vote a

illegal for insurance companies to require women to obtain preauthorizations or referrals to access ob/gyn care but there's still a lot of work that has to be done. currently women in the individual health care market pay up to 48% more in premiums than men and beginning in 2014 this kind of discrimination because it's the new health care law will be outlawed. issuers will be banned from issueing discriminatory writings to women with predominantly female work forces more for the same coverage. in the same year 2014, health care reform also makes it illegal for insurers to deny health care coverage on the basis of preexisting conditions. designations which have often been used to discriminate against women. many women across the country today are denied coverage for preexisting conditions. having had a c-section or just being pregnant, some women were denied coverage for having sought out medical care for domestic or sexual violence. it's important that women have access to health care in these difficult times and we ensure all women have access to health care. i hurnlg my -- urge my collea

health insurance premiums for the high-risk specialties like the one that i enjoyed for 26 years, ob/gyn, neurosurgery, mr. speaker, think about that doctor, the tucson medical center, that was there in that emergency room when our colleague, representative gabrielle giffords was taken there literally near death. and i think dr. reed was his -- dr. rhee was his name. i learned later he was a graduate of the great school i went to georgia tech, the georgia institute of technology. dr. rhee spent his career after completing medical school in the military, served his country for something like 22, 23 years, and he happened to be in that emergency room as head of the trauma center with all that specialty training and all those years of treating our wounded warriors in many conflicts, i'm sure afghanistan and iraq, mr. speaker, if he had not been there our colleague, gabrielle giffords, god bless her, we would be talking about her today as we were talking earlier about john adler. our former colleague who died today from the great state of new jersey. but that doctor was there. he was there.

they are a tried and true method of bringing together people in a wide range, ob/gyn's family practitioners, psychiatrists, that's one thing we can be doing. mr. ging re: if you could wrap -- mr. gingrey: if you could wrap up, i want to thank you, dr. murphy, mr. speaker, thank you for the time, i yield back. i refer to our last post in conclusion, repeel and replace opaw macare. -- repeal and replace obamacare. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from the virgin islands, mrs. christensen, is recognized for 6034i7bs as the dez ig -- is recognized as -- for 60 minutes as the designee of the minority leader. mrs. christensen: i want to talk about some of the things i've just listened to. what we passed last year is not obamacare. to the people of this country, it is your care. and if you allow it to be repealed, defunded or picked apart piece by piece, president obama will have his health care insurance and so will many of the people who are trying to take away your care. the patient protection and affordable care act was not supervise -- was not to provide care for us but to

illegal for insurance companies to require women to obtain preauthorizations or referrals or access to ob/gyncare. women pay up to 48% more in premiums than men. this kind of discrimination because of the health care law will be outlawed. issuers will be banned from gender ratings to charge women and small businesses with predominately female workforces more for the same coverage. in the same year, 2014, health care reform also makes it illegal for insurers to deny health care coverage on the basis of preexisting conditions. designations which have often been used to discriminate against women. many women across the country today are denied coverage for preexisting conditions such as breast or cervical cancer. having had a c-section or even just being pregnant. some women have even been denied coverage for having sought out medical care for domestic or sexual violence. it's critical that we ensure that low-income women have access to health care during these critical times and we ensure all women have rang s. to health care. so -- have access to health care. so i urge my colleagues to vote ag