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Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick: “I strongly support H.R. 3963, the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2007, the modified bill to…”

On the recordOctober 25, 2007
I strongly support H.R. 3963, the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2007, the modified bill to reauthorize and expand the State Children's Health Insurance Program or SCHIP. In the wealthiest country in the world, far too many children are without health insurance. We can afford to spend $10 billion per month in a war in Iraq, but we cannot spend $35 billion over 5 years to protect our children? Over 81 percent of Americans, when asked this very question, agree with the Democratic Party that we need to take care of our children, and we need to take care of them now. Since the inception of SCHIP, the number of uninsured children has been reduced by one third. However, millions of children still remain uninsured or underinsured.
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Addressing the reauthorization and expansion of the Children's Health Insurance Program.

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