Advocacy

Stand up for health coverage for children who need it

Sen. Bob Casey Jr. says that every child in America deserves comprehensive, affordable and easy to access health care.

That’s why the Pennsylvania Democrat has introduced an amendment to the health care reform bill that would protect and ensure health care coverage for children from low-income families. 

With Sen. Casey’s amendment, health care’s safety net for kids – the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) – would be funded through 2019 to ensure that children from low-income families would continue to receive immunizations, prescription medications, dental care, routine check-ups and hospitalization.  They also would receive expanded screenings and diagnostic and treatment benefits.

By 2016, a thorough evaluation of CHIP and other proposals, which include the availability in an Exchange (marketplace for consumers), would be conducted to ensure that health care costs don’t dramatically rise and benefits for children from low-income families aren’t reduced.

Please take this opportunity to voice your support.

Write to Senators Casey and Specter. You can send the letter as written; edit it; or write your own in the space provided.

This is your opportunity to voice your support to protect children’s health coverage for all those kids in families that can’t afford the high cost of private health premiums.