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Call your Senators to Support Children's Health & SCHIP This Week
TOLL-FREE: 1-800-828-0498
From our friends at Families USA

The Senate Finance Committee will gather soon to determine the fate of health care for millions of kids in this country.

The upcoming hearings will determine the content of the SCHIP (State Children's Health Insurance Program) bill that will go to the Senate floor later this summer. The deliberations will affect millions of American children as Senators write and revise critical aspects of the bill.

Senators have returned from recess this week and need to hear from as many of their constituents as possible. Every Senator has a voice in the process.

Please call your Senators this week at 1-800-828-0498 and tell them the importance of SCHIP for America's kids and the need to fully fund it!

You can pass your message on to your friends and colleagues and invite them to sign up for Families USA.

What should you say?

• Support $50 billion in NEW money for SCHIP (pronounced ESS-CHIP) as promised in the budget.
• SCHIP must ensure that all eligible kids get the health care they deserve and don't fall through the cracks into the ranks of the uninsured.
• EVERY child in America deserves health care!
• Thank you for supporting full funding of SCHIP for America's kids.

Background
Earlier this year, thanks to the hard work of millions of activists around the country, the House and Senate budgeted $50 billion NEW dollars for children's health. Now we have to make sure Congress follows through on their promise.

More than 9 million children in America are uninsured and can't get access to the regular checkups and care every child needs. The SCHIP bill before Congress can change that and make a world of difference for millions of kids!

Thank you for all the work you do and for calling your Senators on this critical issue.

Jeff Gordon
Field Director