Chris Dodd said "I offered the first child health care package almost 4 years ago to deal with children's health. As both of our colleagues have pointed out, Mr. President, we have about 10 to 10.5 million children in the country who do not have any health care at all. In my State of Connecticut, about 110,000 children are without any health care coverage at all. What makes this so ironic in many ways, Mr. President--as we have gone through a debate on welfare reform fairly recently--is that 88 percent of the parents of these children without health care are working." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordApril 8, 1997

I offered the first child health care package almost 4 years ago to deal with children's health. As both of our colleagues have pointed out, Mr. President, we have about 10 to 10.5 million children in the country who do not have any health care at all. In my State of Connecticut, about 110,000 children are without any health care coverage at all. What makes this so ironic in many ways, Mr. President--as we have gone through a debate on welfare reform fairly recently--is that 88 percent of the parents of these children without health care are working.

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Chris Dodd

Democratic · Connecticut

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govinfo.gov

Editor's note · Context

Discussing child health care coverage and the number of uninsured children in the U.S.

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