Children's Health Care

FACT: Children with health insurance are more likely to get timely health care. Conversely, children without health insurance are less likely to receive or more likely to delay needed care, resulting in more costly treatment in the future. Currently, 9 million U.S. children do not have health insurance.

QUESTION: What will you do to ensure that every child in the U.S. has affordable, comprehensive health insurance?  What is your timetable?

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FACT: SCHIP is a successful and popular children's health insurance program covering over 6 million children who would be uninsured without these programs. Federal SCHIP funding expires in March of 2009. States design their SCHIP programs to meet their populations' needs

QUESTION: What would you do to ensure the continuation of children's health insurance programs like SCHIP? How will you address the issues of states' roles in designing children's health insurance programs?

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