Frank Pallone: “following up on my colleague from Connecticut [Ms. DeLauro], I want to reiterate again this report that came out from…”

“following up on my colleague from Connecticut [Ms. DeLauro], I want to reiterate again this report that came out from the Children's Defense Fund that was in today's Washington Post. Once again there is another article in another major newspaper on the number of children in this country who do not have health insurance. According to the General Accounting Office, this is an all time high. Not only one out of seven children, as was mentioned, do not have health insurance, but if we do not make this a top priority, we are going to have even more serious problems. The Children's Defense Fund report says that unless action is taken now 12.6 million children will be uninsured by the year 2000. This news is only for the Republicans. Since last spring Democrats have been developing legislative plans to provide health insurance to the Nation's 10 million uninsured children, but to date there is not a single Republican plan to address this situation. Nor does it look like the GOP has any intention of giving this issue the attention it deserves. The House Republican agenda announced last week made no mention of a plan to insure the Nation's uninsured children.”