Sen. Dick Durbin offered this response to Ted Cruz today in the Senate:

“One of the reasons that I voted for health care reform – and am proud that I did – was illustrated by a woman that I met in southern Illinois. … This woman’s name is Judy, and Judy is a housekeeper at a motel that I often go to, and we’ve become friends. Judy has worked her whole life in manual labor. She’s been everything you can imagine – cook, a waitress, housekeeper, all of these thing. She’s 62 years old.

Judy told me that she’d never had health insurance one day in her life – ever. She worked every single day that she could, but she never had health insurance.

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But the good news for Judy is that her income is so low that she now qualifies for Medicaid for the first time in her life.”