Gretchen Whitmer: “I fight to expand access to healthcare, because I fought my…”

“But as I think about who I am today and who I've been ever since 2001, 2002, my first term in the legislature, that two year period of time really, I think, forged me. And that's why I fight to expand access to healthcare, because I fought my mom's insurance company when they wouldn't pay for her chemotherapy. They were supposed to and they weren't. So I had to fight them to pay for it. I was trying to figure out childcare for my daughters, trying to, you know, breastfeed.” (13:30–13:38)

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