[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 28 (Thursday, March 6, 1997)]
[House]
[Pages H770-H771]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           CHILDREN'S HEALTH

  (Mr. GREEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GREEN. Mr. Speaker, one of the central points of the democratic 
Families First program has been a commitment to improving children's 
health care.
  Last summer in Houston we hosted an immunization day to offer inner 
city children free immunization as a step toward providing them with 
critical preventative health care. And we will do it again this year. 
But that is not enough.
  The Democratic Members of Congress know children's health is an issue 
that deserves our attention. In millions of American households with 
one or two working parents, children are excluded from their health 
care coverage. Ninety percent of the 10 million American

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children who are uninsured have parents who work but whose employers 
cannot or do not provide health care coverage for the children.
  The Democratic plan will help children get coverage by requiring 
insurance companies to offer kids-only health plans and tax credits to 
help families pay for those premiums. The Democratic families first 
agenda will indeed offer real improvements to every life for America's 
working families, especially our children.
  Let us work together bipartisanly to improve the health care for 
America's 10 million uninsured children.

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