In the Illinois State Senate, he passed the first major ethics reform in 25 years, cut taxes for working families, and expanded health care for children and their parents.
"I'm not sure the majority of the members of the U.S. Senate want to be out there defending the tobacco industry from at least paying their fair share of the health care cost and of health care coverage for children, " Kennedy said.
And I'm not going to stand for balancing the budget by denying or reducing health care for poor children or those with disabilities.
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Later governments improved health care for mothers and children, but only after battles, and compromises, with the church.
The two lawmakers, who are personal friends, plan on Tuesday to introduce their proposal, which is aimed at helping the working poor purchase health care coverage for their children.
We worked to secure health care for 4 million children, including the children of legal immigrants. (Applause.) And we are implementing health reform for all who've been abused by insurance companies, and all who fear about going broke if they get sick.
This allows them not just to buy things like fridges or cars but to improve their health care or plan for their children's education.
The budget plan also ends guaranteed welfare for poor children, limits health care guarantees for the disabled and limits the growth of spending on Medicare.
But she greeted me with her bald head painted with my name on it and asked me to fight for health care for her and her children.
Gates is expected to announce new foundation investments in global health care programs for women and children when she addresses the Women Deliver 2010 conference in Washington, D.
Unlike Clinton, Obama would not mandate that every individual have health care insurance, but he would require health insurance for children.
Clients are plied with everything from free limousine rental (with chauffeur) to matchmaking for their children, health care and even plastic surgery.
With its method of payment for the children's health care initiative, Congress has put the tobacco industry in a pickle.
And for the government, which pays for the health-care costs of many children, the very poor, the retired, veterans and its own servants, the geometrically rising price of cover is inexorably busting the budget.
The reality can be devastating for families with children taken into care for being obese, or suffering long-term health problems.
Often employers find themselves footing health care costs for employees' ex-spouses and adult children who aren't in school.
He has worked tirelessly to ensure that every American has access to quality and affordable health care, and has succeeded in doing so for countless children, seniors, and Americans with disabilities.
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Those jobs not only boost their pay sharply, says Mrs Davis, but also provide better health insurance and schedules flexible enough to let them care for their children more easily.
"Obamacare is extremely problematic" she declared, expressing concerns about unintended costs and then pivoting to praise popular provisions such as an end to the exclusion of people with pre-existing conditions and the allowance for children to stay on their parents' health care plans until 26.
The top four were basic health care, better water and sanitation, more schools and better nutrition for children.
Pregnant women, people caring for children under the age of 6 months, health care workers and adults under the age of 65 with chronic illness also are considered at high risk.
Northern Ireland is today at peace, more Americans have health care, more children around the world are going to school, and for all those things we owe a great debt to the life and courage of Senator Edward Kennedy.
I've spent my entire life trying to make good on it, whether it was fighting for women's basic rights or children's basic health care, protecting our social security or protecting our soldiers.
Technology must be implemented as part of a thoughtful, holistic approach to education transformation that includes teacher training, relevant curricula, parental involvement and programs for children that fill unmet needs for basics like nutrition and health care.
As a result, the Health and Social Care Board carried out its own consultation on how best to cater for these children.
More cuts are on the way, but, for the moment, children of women on welfare have access to basic health care.
The spokesman also said that the majority of children did not have to wait more than four weeks for mental health care.
Whether it's making sure that children have access to education or health care, or bringing in more income for the family, so many of these core development goals are primarily delivered by women.
Obama said steps have already been taken to increase coverage by extending quality health care to millions of children of working families who lack coverage and providing a COBRA subsidy for 7 million Americans who have lost their jobs during the economic downturn.
Speaking to the BBC, junior health minister John Hutton said the report must be the "catalyst for change" in the care of children.
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