Article: Gephardt Health Plan Honors Son.

By Matthew Quinn, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jul. 27--CHARLESTON, S.C.--It's the third time in two days that Rep. Dick Gephardt is telling the story.

Addressing a rapt audience of community health care workers Friday at Ebenezer AME Church in Charleston, he recounts how he and his wife, Jane, were given the "devastating news" 30 years ago that their 2-year-old son had been diagnosed with a fast-growing tumor the size of a volleyball on his prostate.

"He's not going to be alive four weeks from now," Gephardt ...uotes the doctors as saying.

"We went home and prayed all night," Gephardt says. ...

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