Having insurance doesn't guarantee good health outcomes, but it is a critical factor.

Medicaid and the Child Health Insurance Program are the two most important safety net programs for children.

A rite of passage in America when you turn 50 and have good health insurance is a colonoscopy.

If we ensure access to health care and 'best practice' asthma treatment for children, especially those at high risk, there is the potential to save the health care system billions of dollars.

The result was, of course, that today, tragically, more than 40 million Americans don't have health insurance, and for many, not having health insurance means they don't have access to good health care.

If a severe pandemic materializes, all of society could pay a heavy price for decades of failing to create a rational system of health care that works for all of us.