It costs $3,000 to $6,000 a day to keep one of these children in a hospital. The Legislature is talking about Medicaid reform, and we think we can be a very important part of that discussion.

We could help a lot of these children make the transition back to public school.

A lot of these kids will fall through the cracks. They will end up getting much more expensive care or they will get no care at all.

Too many children are not getting a healthy start in life; they are not getting proper preventive medical care; and they are not getting a nutritious diet. The cost to them, and to all of us if we continue down this path, will be overwhelming.

That doesn't happen every day.

I’d have given any- thing to know how Mom and Dad were, but you can’t ask your parents such questions. You have to wait for them to tell you what it is that will happen next...