Every morning, newspaper and coffee in hand, I read my newspaper and search for just one article or commentary that addresses how children will wind up after health care reform and every morning I find none.  Later, as I’m driving home and listening to the radio and even later, as I’m cooking dinner and watching the evening news, I still find there is no coverage about children in this health care debate.  Why is this?

There are 73,941,848 children in the United States in 2008.

There has been tons of media coverage on how possible reform will affect health insurance companies, businesses, drug companies, and seniors – but scant coverage on how this will affect children.  Powerful lobbyists make sure their voices are heard and their concerns are met.  These voices have been loud – so loud that those speaking out on needs of children have been drowned out.

But finally, an amendment was filed today, authored by Senator Casey, that addresses the status of children in this health care debate.  His speech introduces this bill and explains why this bill is critical to ensuring that no child is worse off after health care reform.  Minnesota Senators Franken and Klobuchar co-signed this bill and more than 500 national organizations have signed on, too.

We found a way to cover seniors, why haven’t we done the same for children?