Health insurance should be guaranteed for all children

According to a new article in the New York Times, children in America should automatically receive health insurance cover between the ages of one and eighteen. The article, by NYT columnist Bob Herbert, made it clear that this was achievable, and likened it to a moon landing and the Marshall plan – something that seemed daunting but could become reality.

Herbert wrote in the article: there is a concerted effort to undermine programs that bring government-sponsored health care to poor and working-class children. It is not an environment in which bureaucrats are encouraged to be helpful, not even when lives are at stake.

Herbert made it clear that although medical insurance and aid can cover children, reductions in coverage have led to cracks in the system. Many children, he comments, receive no health coverage at all. He concluded: It is time for all that to end. Keeping American children alive and healthy should be at least as important as any previous major legislative effort.