Elizabeth Furse: “As a parent, and I know the gentleman is a parent of small children, I am a grandmother, what we know is that we do not…”

“As a parent, and I know the gentleman is a parent of small children, I am a grandmother, what we know is that we do not sleep well at night if we know that our children do not have that security. It is security, it is the knowledge that if they should become ill or if we just want to keep them healthy, we have that opportunity to go to. Mr. Speaker, we have the very best medical system in the world, but if our children cannot access that medical system, it does not matter how good it is. We have got to make sure that it is available to everyone, not just the rich, not just the very poor, but those working families who care so much about their kids and want to do the right thing for them, and they cannot pay the rent and the food and this very, very expensive insurance. So, if we can provide them something that will take some part of those 10 million, then with our Medigap, Medikids Program that we are going to put forward, and with this outreach that you described so that everybody who is eligible will be able to access Medicaid, I think we could do the responsible thing.”