Guaranteed Healthcare

Let's also look into the mirror on this question of who is letting kids die. Not just Insurance Companies, as greedy as they are, are killing our kids. Our silence is killing them too. We need to speak up. We need to tell our state and national legislators that we will not countenance our babies dying for lack of care.

And that is exactly the problem. Lack of medical care and treatment. Fewer American babies make it to their 1st birthday because their mom didn't get pre-natal care and they didn't get well-baby check-ups and routine immunizations. According to the Fact Sheet on Preventing Infant Mortality from the United States Health and Human Services, "Babies born to mothers who received no prenatal care are three times more likely to be born at low birth weight, and five times more likely to die, than those whose mothers received prenatal care."

In the realm of infant mortality we could jump from last place with the worst record on baby deaths to almost 1st place among industrialized nations if we just made sure that all moms were able to get early and continuous pre-natal care and that all infants were able to get well-baby check ups.

The solution is known and simple. We just need the will to do it. Guarantee Health Care for All.

Our President, to his shame, is about to veto another bill that would at least ensure that most children get this kind of care. We need to let President Bush know that such a veto is unacceptable, not the Will of the People, and not in the best interest of our country.

Call the Whitehouse and tell him you do not want him to veto the S-CHIP bill. Call your Senators and Congressmen and women and let them know you expect them to support and fund health care for all.

Health care for all. No excuses.