"... The second Trump administration is forcing the American people to define how they think the United States government should spend their tax dollars.
"Today Senator Andy Kim (D-NJ) introduced a proposal to expand Medicaid to all American children from birth to age 26. Kim noted that about 4.4 million children in the U.S. don’t have health insurance and 23 million are underinsured. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act will make things worse.
"Joseph Choi of The Hill reported that Democratic senators Alex Padilla of California, Cory Booker of New Jersey, and Tammy Duckworth of Illinois are co-sponsoring the bill. The legislation proposing 'MediKids' has been endorsed by a range of organizations, including the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the American Academy of Pediatrics.
“'Every child should have health care,' Kim said in a video. ''very child should have the ability to go to a doctor when they’re sick. Every child deserves to be healthy.' MediKids 'would automatically enroll every child in health care coverage at birth. Because the system we have right now isn’t working. Because healthy kids make healthy adults, and that makes for a healthier, stronger future for our country. Because, as a parent, you deserve to be able to provide care for your kids without worrying about going into debt, emptying your savings, or straining the family budget. And because…we all have a responsibility to care for each other.'” -- Heather Cox Richardson, in her "Letters from an American" Substack, as part of her contrasting the Malignant Fascist's policies of Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program cuts, withholding billions of Medicaid dollars from California and Minnesota, degradation and dismantling of our National Park System, and requesting $67 billion in addition to the low-balled $37.5 billion already spent on Operation Epic Fail. This is the choice, as John Pavlovitz put it, between a party that defaults to cruelty versus one that defaults to compassion.
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