[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5624]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               PEACHCARE

  (Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, today, I rise again to address 
the impending crisis threatening Georgia's PeachCare program.
  In just 4 days, no new children will be permitted to enroll. The 
program will have a $131 million shortfall, and neither the State of 
Georgia nor the Congress will have acted to save PeachCare.
  As Members of Congress, it is hard to imagine our children being 
uninsured, yet thousands of children in Georgia face that harsh reality 
every day. That is unacceptable. No child should be without health 
care.
  Congress and the State of Georgia owe it to these children to ensure 
that the PeachCare program survives.

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