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Child Health Research Data & Publications

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08/14/09

Child Watch® Column: "Life and Death and Child Health Reform"

As a child, Devante Johnson's future seemed to be full of promise. His mother, Tamika Scott, worked hard, managing to raise three boys while pursuing a career, buying a house and completing a college degree. But as we reported two years ago, her family's middle class security crumbled when her doctors told her she had Multiple Sclerosis and strongly urged her to leave her job because the stress of work would make her condition worse. With the dramatic loss of income and insurance, everything she was building began to slip away as she cashed in stocks and used money from her retirement fund to pay bills. Fifteen months later, her problems worsened. Her oldest son, Devante, then 10, was diagnosed with advanced kidney cancer.

07/31/09

Child Watch® Column: "Unfair Children's Health Disparities: More Reason for Reform"

In all of the recent debate over who deserves access to health care in our wealthy country, one often forgotten fact is that this is one more area where Black children and other children of color have always been left behind. Of the nine million uninsured children in America, minority children are uninsured and underinsured at far greater rates than White children.

07/31/09

Marian Wright Edelman's La Columna Child Watch®: "Las injustas disparidades en la salud de los niños: otra razón por la cual reformar el sistema"

En el reciente debate sobre qui??n merece acceso a cuidado m??dico en nuestro pr??spero pa??s, a menudo se olvida el hecho de que la salud es un campo m??s en que siempre se han dejado atr??s a los ni??os afro americanos y otros de las comunidades de color. De los nueve millones de ni??os sin seguro m??dico en Estados Unidos, los de comunidades minoritarias se quedan sin cobertura, o con s??lo insuficiente cobertura, a un ritmo mucho mayor que los ni??os blancos.

07/24/09

Child Watch® Column: "Eleven-year-old Ronald's Troubling Predicament"

Eleven-year-old Ronald has just finished the fourth grade at his New Orleans elementary school. During the school year he was enrolled in an after-school Children's Defense Fund (CDF) Freedom Schools® program, which seeks to help children fall in love with reading, increase their self-esteem, and develop more positive attitudes toward learning.

07/17/09

Child Watch® Column: "Children Demand Real Child Health Reform Legislation in Congress for All Children"

As legislators on Capitol Hill make crucial decisions right now to reform America's broken health care system, thousands of children across the country raised their voices demanding health coverage for all children during the Children's Defense Fund (CDF) Freedom Schools® annual National Day of Social Action.

07/10/09

Child Watch® Column: "Let's Stop Playing the Lottery with Our Children's Health"

As Congress drafts legislation to reform America's health care system, our Senators and Representatives must consider the impact of the unjust lottery of geography on children like Carlos Sanchez (not his real name). For five years, Carlos, 15, received pediatric care at the Upper Cardozo Health Center, one of the 39 sites that are a part of Unity Health Care, Inc.

07/03/09

Child Watch® Column: "Health Coverage: Making Too Little, Making Too Much?"

The James family in Fort Worth, Texas, should be celebrating right now. After losing his last job due to the difficult economy, Jason James, who worked as a supervisor at a warehouse company, had been searching for new employment for months.

06/26/09

Child Watch® Column: "This Is Congress's Chance to Fix the Health Care System for All Children"

On June 23, I testified before the House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Health, to comment on its comprehensive health reform discussion draft. I pressed the Subcommittee on the need for health care reforms that extend affordable and accessible coverage with comprehensive benefits to all children in every state and urged them to simplify enrollment and retention, particularly in Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP).

06/23/09

Marian Wright Edelman's Testimony for Subcommittee on Health of the Committee on Energy and Commerce's Hearing on the Comprehensive Health Reform Discussion Draft

Mrs. Edelman testimony before Energy and Commerce Committtee.

06/23/09

Marian Wright Edelman's Testimony for Hearing on the Comprehensive Health Reform Discussion Draft

CDF President Marian Wright Edelman's testimony for Subcommittee on Health of the Committee on Energy and Commerce's hearing on the Comprehensive Health Reform Discussion Draft on June 23, 2009.

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