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Decorah woman cited by Obama in 2007 will attend today's speech
A Decorah woman introduced nearly three years ago in Iowa City as the face of health care in America by then-candidate Barack Obama said she plans to attend the president's health care speech today at the University of Iowa Field House.
Amy Chicos, whose family struggled with $1,000 per month health insurance premiums in 2007, praised Obama's leadership in the passage Sunday of landmark health care reform legislation.
Chicos, who with her husband Lane operates an Internet service business in Decorah, said she hopes health care reform will enable more entrepreneurs to start small businesses.
“I am also very happy that people will be able to have the flexibility in their lives to make decisions based upon what is best for them and their families, rather than based upon fear of losing health insurance,” she said.
Obama described the Chicos family's struggle to pay costly health insurance premiums during the rollout of his health care policy on May 29, 2007, at the University of Iowa Medical & Education Research Facility.
Presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., shakes hands with Amy Chicos of Decorah as he arrives Tuesday, May 29, 2007, to deliver a health care speech on the medical campus at the University of Iowa in Iowa City. Obama centered his speech on the plight of the Chicos family who are on the brink of bankruptcy because of the cost of health insurance after her husband's battle with cancer. Obama delivered a plan designed to develop a vision for reducing the cost of health care and covering all Americans in the 21st century.
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