Kids Demand Healthcare

As part of a demonstration in support of health care for kids, dozens of children will pull red wagons overflowing with petitions to the White House gates today at 11A. Hundreds of healthcare workers, consumers and kids will gather at McPherson Square at 10A to protest President Bush’s expected veto of the successful State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).  The bill, which Congress approved last week, would provide health coverage to nearly ten million children whose families cannot afford private insurance. The Care for Kids petition drive was co-sponsored by Americans United for Change, Campaign for America’s Future, Change America Now, Coalition on Human Needs, Families USA, Moveon.org, the National Education Association, True Majority, First Focus, PICO, NAACP, Jobs with Justice and USAction.