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Money Spent on SCHIP is Money Well Spent

Floor Speech

Date: Jan. 14, 2009
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Minors and Children Health and Health Care


MONEY SPENT ON SCHIP IS MONEY WELL SPENT

Mr. MURPHY of Connecticut. Madam Speaker, today the House will debate and pass legislation to extend health care to 4 million more American children.

In the richest country in the world, it simply defies our national conscience to allow any child to go to sleep in his bed at night sick just because his parents can't afford to bring him to a doctor. These kids don't deserve this fate and frankly, neither do their parents because three-fourths of the uninsured come from families with a full-time worker who just happens to work for a company that doesn't or can't provide health care.

The Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act will give States the confidence they need to improve their health care systems and increase outreach to ensure that all eligible kids have coverage.

This is money well spent. Insuring kids is the right thing to do from both a moral and financial standpoint. It is time for the House to do what it's done twice before and pass legislation that will get 4 million more kids the health care they deserve.


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