The government would provide new protection for people with catastrophic illnesses, covering 90 percent of costs over $6,000 a year.

It has helped support more than 40 families in times of catastrophic illness.

I don't know what a catastrophic illness might have cost our family financially.

Would they support a Government program to cover catastrophic illness, even if it cost $10 billion a year?

Perhaps most important for the elderly, the system would give them protection against catastrophic illness, something they do not now have.

What you really need is protection against a catastrophic illness.

The bill would increase protection from medical expenses for catastrophic illness.

For catastrophic illness, Medicare could be used to cover everyone.

The few patients I've lost died because of accident, catastrophic illness, or old age.

Congress expanded Medicare to cover the cost of catastrophic illness in 1988.