Kiddycare initiatives are Congress' response to the supposed 10 million children without health coverage. Yet the Census Bureau reports that only 2.8 million children are chronically uninsured. The rest of those 10 million are only temporarily uninsured and regain coverage within four months. 2 Two disastrous proposals. However, the proposals drafted by the House Commerce and Senate Finance Committees are exactly the wrong approach.
Parents know their children's health needs better than policymakers and bureaucrats.
While health coverage can be beneficial, taxing families to provide government health coverage for children cripples parents' ability to meet their children's most basic health care needs. As a result, many children will be worse off with government health coverage.