03/04/2009
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"Talk to me a little bit about the importance of outreach, and particularly rural outreach, since there are so many communities."
"We went from one of the bottom of the barrel programs to where we signed up 98 percent of our eligible children."
"It is a critically important program."
"Our CHIP program back in the early 2000s was, frankly, a dreadful disaster."