John Kerry: “this week thousands of business owners, union members, faith leaders, physicians, nurses, and patients will come…”

“this week thousands of business owners, union members, faith leaders, physicians, nurses, and patients will come together in Washington and in each of the 50 States to demand immediate action to fix our Nation's growing health insurance crisis. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's fifth annual Cover the Uninsured Week will once again call attention to the 45 million of our neighbors, co-workers and friends--including 11 million children under age 21--who live without any health care coverage. Unable to afford doctor's visits and prescription drugs, they live day to day in fear that a child will get sick or suffer an accident. No family in this great Nation should have to live in such fear. Understandably, the focus of Cover the Uninsured Week this year is on the great opportunity presenting this Congress to expand coverage to millions of America's uninsured children through the reauthorization and expansion of the successful, bipartisan State Children's Health Insurance Program. This is the number one domestic budget priority for me and for the new Democratic Congress.”