Besse on Children's Health Care

NEWS RELEASE — OCTOBER 19, 2007

Contact: Dan Besse, 336-722-1674

BESSE PRAISES DEMOCRATIC LEADERS FOR EFFORT;

CALLS FOR CAMPAIGN FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH

WINSTON-SALEM—Dan Besse, Winston-Salem City Council Member and Democratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor, praised the efforts of Congressional Democrats to override the Bush veto of children's health insurance, and called for a campaign to expand children's health care.


"I'm proud of the efforts of Democrats in Congress, including every North Carolina Democrat, to override President Bush's veto," said Besse. "President Bush's veto of health care for children whose families can't afford private insurance was a profoundly immoral act, and the American people won't stand for it over the longer run."


"I call on Congressional leaders of good conscience in both parties to regroup and press forward with the campaign to expand health care coverage for children," said Besse. "As North Carolina's next Lieutenant Governor, I will do everything in my power to see that every child in our state has access to high quality, affordable health care."


"It's an outrage that George Bush sits in the White House, producing record deficit spending on everything else, and vetoes critical help for poor sick kids," declared Besse.


Besse explained that the Bush veto is jeopardizing North Carolina's efforts to cover more of the over 250,000 children in our state with no regular health care coverage. "I supported state legislation adopted this year which would help more hard-working low-income families protect their children's health, through timely doctor visits, needed medication, and other care," Besse said. "I understand from the Governor's budget office that the Bush veto not only undercuts that health care expansion effort, but that Bush's recommended funding level could lead to actually cutting the number of North Carolina children receiving help by up to 30,000 kids."


Dan Besse

Democrat for Lieutenant Governor

Dan Besse 2008

P.O. Box 15346
Winston-Salem, NC 27113

www.danbesse2008.org

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