Barack Obama has made the battle of reforming health care personal. Last week, during the While House’s ‘Open for Questions’ town hall, Obama not only discussed medical insurance in regards to his mother’s battle with ovarian cancer, but he openly discussed his youngest daughter being stricken with meningitis.
"When Sasha, our little precious pea, she got meningitis when she was three months old," said Obama. "The doctors did a terrific job, but frankly, it was the nurses that were there with us when she had to get a spinal tap and all sorts of things that were just bringing me to tears. And we've got a problem in this country, which is we have a shortage of nurses."
This is not the first time Obama has publically discussed Sasha’s health scare. In his book, “Audacity of Hope,” Obama used the example of Sasha’s illness and hospitalization to illustrate the “need for affordable and universal health care.”
In the book he wrote, "I still shudder when I think of those three days; how my world narrowed to a single point, and how I was not interested in anything or anybody outside the four walls of that hospital room -- not my work, not my schedule, not my future.”
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