On November 4, about 4,000 babies, children, parents, youths, teachers, child care providers, doctors, and grandparents rallied in D.C. to tell Congress that millions of children must not be left worse off after health reform.
Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 09.24.2009 | Business
In addition to it being the morally right thing to do, investing in children is also the economically smart thing to do. Children constitute over half the Medicaid rolls but less than a quarter of its costs.
Olivia Rosewood | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics
Our health care system doesn't need to be fixed, because it wasn't working. Our health care system needs a complete systemic make over.
Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics
How many children in New Orleans and across our country are in harm's way because they fell through the cracks in our broken health care system?
Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 06.26.2009 | Home
Why, in the richest country on earth, should parents have to wage a major, constant struggle with an insurer to provide their child with the medical care she so obviously needs?
Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 06.11.2009 | Living
Why should we continue to let children fall between the chasm of profit-driven health insurance companies and income-restrictive Medicaid and CHIP programs?
Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 05.14.2009 | Politics
A public health insurance plan option would encourage competition on the basis of cost and quality, not by avoiding the sick and denying care, as is the current practice.
Amy L. Fairchild, Ph.D. and Ronald Bayer, Ph.D. | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics
Like the provision of medical care to the ill, an effective health system -- which keeps children and adults from becoming sick in the first place -- depends on both vision and commitment.
Christine Pelosi | Posted 02.14.2009 | Politics
With a stroke of his pen, Barack Obama will soon change America's priorities - spending the equivalent of 40 days in Iraq to provide health care for over 10 million children a year.
Olivia Rosewood | Posted 11.08.2008 | Living
Grace couldn't afford for the surgery to be cancelled or even delayed. The infection had caused her little cheek to swell and finally rip open. What could she do? What could I do?
Susan Kelley-Stamerra | Posted 10.27.2008 | Home
If women aren't looked after in this election, in this economic environment, the losses will be substantial and lasting.
Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics
There are 9.4 million uninsured children in America today and millions more are underinsured. Ensuring they have affordable access to timely health care is smart policy.
Robert Drago and Arlene Holt Baker | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics
McCain's voting record on family issues speaks clearly and in a single voice: he does not value family in any meaningful sense of the word.
AP | JENNIFER LOVEN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
President Bush vetoed legislation Wednesday that would have expanded government-provided health insurance for children, his second slap-down of a bipa...
Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 11.17.2009 | Impact