Thank you, Madam Chair.
There was a discussion about the connection between poverty and the impact on the health care system. I wanted to explore another piece of that.
I have a 28-year-old constituent who is a single mother, and she's just discovered that she has cervical cancer. She works in a job where there are no benefits and there's no access to a drug plan. She's actually resisting, holding back on her care, because she doesn't know what will happen to her child if she goes for the surgery or how she'll be able to afford the drugs once she comes out of the hospital.
I'm wondering if you've had experience with that same situation, and could you comment on that?