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• Urge Congress to Override Bush Veto of State Children's Health Insurance Program
  Earlier this week, I joined Senator Debbie Stabenow at a community roundtable on the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), which in Michigan is known as MiChild. I sat for an hour with health care professionals and child advocates, who shared their first-hand experience with how important it is for our children to have health care coverage. We heard heart wrenching stories about what happens when kids don't have access to preventative treatment. We heard about a child who died from an asthma attack because he couldn't see a regular doctor. And about an earache that went untreated and led to permanent hearing loss. And a tooth infection that led to death. Insurance and preventative care would have made a difference in all of these cases.