Sen. Stabenow Issues Statement on Children’s Health Insurance Program
Mr. President, on a different subject, talking about keeping promises; that is, other people who are counting on us to be able to act in order to get their healthcare.
We have had 81 days since the funding ended for the
I literally received just a few moments ago a notice from our State saying it is very likely that if we don't act, in January, families in
It has been 81 days since the deadline of
In addition to that, community health centers across the country serve 25 million patients every year; 300,000 of them are veterans, and 7.5 million of them are children.
I had the opportunity last Friday to visit two wonderful facilities-- one in
It is important that we act. We could act right now. This is bipartisan. We passed a bipartisan bill out of the
Our plan all along was to pass the children's health insurance bill out of committee in September and add health centers and then pass it before the deadline so that it would take away the anxiety, worry, and fear that families now have about what is going to happen.
Every day that goes by, people are worried about what is going to happen. Are they going to be able to take their child to the doctor, be able to get their asthma treatments, handle their juvenile diabetes, cancer treatments, or the normal things that happen to kids every day?
I am not sure if there will be any votes today. We could, today, pass the
I yield the floor.
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