Spitzer on Children's Healthcare

""To deny coverage to these children is not only morally wrong, it is profoundly bad public policy. Denying children health coverage during their formative years leaves them far more vulnerable to preventable diseases, which costs patients, government and taxpayers far more to treat in the future... But if [Congressional Democrats and Republicans], too, fail to act, 400,000 children in New York — and millions more across America — will continue to rely on the oldest and most precarious health insurance policy of all: waking up every morning and hoping and praying you don't get sick." "