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We Must Fund PeachCare!

By Hank Johnson

YESTERDAY I SPOKE on the House floor to urge my colleagues to adequately fund PeachCare, Georgia's fantastic but severely underfunded children's health insurance program.

In 1997, Congress created the State Children's Health Insurance Program (S-CHIP) to help states provide health coverage to a growing number of uninsured children.  Ten years later, more than six million children have been enrolled in this program.  They are getting the check-ups, medicine, and treatment they need and deserve.

Unfortunately, S-CHIP is threatened by severely inadequate funding.  The budget that the president has introduced neglects to address the huge shortfalls threatening S-CHIP's future and the health of our children.  Hundreds of thousands of children are at risk of losing vital health coverage.

Without Congress' help, Georgia will be unable to provide healthcare for the three-hundred thousand kids currently enrolled in PeachCare.  Increased federal funding is absolutely imperative.  Many massive federal programs are inefficient and ineffective.  S-CHIP is a wonderful exception.  PeachCare has been praised by parents, doctors, and government officials alike.  We must save it and, in doing so, save the futures of hundreds of thousands of children.

 

Please watch my speech and then click "Share" to send it to your friends.  And please keep urging your elected representatives to save S-CHIP.  Keep the letters coming!

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Full post as published by Hank Johnson's Blog on February 06, 2007 (boomark / email).