Baldwin, a U.S. senator from Wisconsin, appeared earlier to discuss health care. “When I was 9 years old, I got sick,” she said. “Really sick.
I was hospitalized. But since my grandparents were the ones raising me — and our family’s health plan didn’t cover grandkids — they were forced to pay out of pocket for my three-month hospital stay.
I got better. But the insurance companies didn’t. They refused to cover me at any cost — because I was marked ‘child with a preexisting condition.’”She noted later, however, that there was another part to her story: “The part where I ran for office.