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Children's Health - 01/29/2009
The Senate this week neared passage of the long-overdue Children's Health Insurance Program. The children's health program is critical as states begin to run out of money for children's health care, and every time the national unemployment rate goes up one point, 700,000 more children lose their coverage. "I find it amazing that we have spent so much time debating it," said Sen. Sanders on the Senate floor on Wednesday. "The United States of America remains the only country in the industrialized world where this debate would take place. We're spending weeks discussing an issue that every other country in the industrialized world has long resolved." The senator, a member of the Senate health committee, pointed out that, even after the children's health care bill passes, 3 million kids will remain without health insurance. -- READ MORE
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POLL - Global Warming
