Senate Approves Children’s Health Bill (NYTimes.com, January 29, 2009)
Summary: U.S. Senate approves a bill Thursday, January 29, 2009 that allows more than four million children to have health insurance.
Topic: Should the government arrange for hospitals to network to help standardize the cost of health care?
Category: Journalistic
Title: Senate Approves Children’s Health Bill
Author: Robert Pear
Location: NYTimes.com
Accessed: January 30,2009
Support: President George Bush; President Obama; Senator John McCain of Arizona; House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi; Jennifer M. Ng’andu, a health policy specialist at the National Council of La Raza; Congressional Budget Office; Cindy Mann, executive director of the Center for Children and Families at Georgetown University; Senator Sherrod Brown, Democrat of Ohio; Senator Roger Wicker, Republican of Mississippi; Senate Democrat, Richard J. Durbin of Illinois; Senator Jon Kyl, Republican of Arizona; Senator Robert Menendez, Democrat of New Jersey. Both politicians and researchers come together to help insure that there are less children in United States with out health care.
Source Analysis: The New York Times is Pulitzer Prize winning newspaper that many Americans go to when looking for their daily headlines. Known for their saying “All the News That’s Fit to Print” the New York Times has over a million papers in circulation daily.
Usefulness: This article shows how important health care is to both Republican and Democratic states. Even though there is a debate between the way the government should come into the health care system, both parties agree that there is a problem. This article shows the two parties coming together to help fix the health care crisis at hand. With the children’s health bill in place, now the next question is to see the reaction of the public to the start of Obama’s plan.
Works Cited: http://menendez.senate.gov/, Google.com, http://kyl.senate.gov/constit_center, http://durbin.senate.gov//about.cfm, http://congress.org/congressorg/bio/id/343, http://www.sherrodbrown.com/, Georgetown University, Congressional Budget Office, Jenifer Ng’andu, http://www.house.gov/pelosi/biography/bio.html, Wikipedia
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