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I was sworn into the United States Senate

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next to a hospital bed.

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My wife and daughter,

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they'd been killed in a car crash.

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And lying in that bed were my two surviving little boys.

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I couldn't imagine what it would've been like

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if we didn't have the health care they needed immediately.

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Forty years later, one of those little boys,

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my son, Beau,

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was diagnosed with terminal cancer,

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and given only months to live.

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I can't fathom what would've happened

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if the insurance companies had said,

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for the last six months of his life, "you're on your own."

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The fact of the matter is, 

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health care is personal to me.

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Obamacare is personal to me.

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And when I see the President try to tear it down,

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and others propose we replace it and start over,

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that's personal to me, too.

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We've got to build on what we did

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because every American deserves affordable health care.

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I'm Joe Biden, and I approve this message.