John Kerry traveled to St. Paul, Minnesota on Tuesday, May 3rd for the second in a series of town hall meetings to highlight the growing need for health care coverage in this country and promoting his KidsFirst bill to provide health care coverage to 11 million uninsured children in America. Kerry will visit Seattle, St. Paul, Baton Rouge and Miami during the tour.
In St. Paul, Kerry was joined by Representative Betty McCollum (D-MN), The Minnesota Nurses Association, KidsFirst coalition partners, health care providers and citizen KidsFirst activists for a town hall meeting on children’s health care coverage.
He spoke about how his KidsFirst legislation can help and how they can get involved to hold their leaders accountable on children’s health care issues.
On the first day of the 108th Congress, Kerry introduced legislation in the Senate, the “Kids First Act” – S. 114, to provide health care coverage to the 11 million American children who currently go without. Kerry’s legislation also helps Governors and states save on health care costs by reducing the burden on state’s Medicaid rolls.
