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Clinton Presidential Records
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Speechwriting
Series/Staff Member:
Michael Waldman
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14450
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[League of Cities Research]: Kaiser
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�I am delighted to be here today to celebrate this important announcement about children's
health. Kaiser's pledge to offer $100 million to provide health care coverage for California's
uninsured children is a remarkable act of civic leadership and generosity that will make a
difference in the lives of thousands of children and their families.
I am tremendously heartened by the action that Kaiser has taken today. All across the
nation we are forging partnerships between business and government. ... welfare to
work/connecting our schools to the internet. If we are going to resolve some of our most
intractable problems, if we are to live up to our potential to make this nation what it can and
should be (public/private rhetoric), we will need the leadership of both the private and public
sectors.
We all suffer when ten million children across our nation lack health care coverage. The
First Lady and I believe this to be one of the most important problems — and one that we have an
obligation to solve.
And in California alone there are 1.6 million children without health care. The
consequences for these children are profound. Nearly 40 percent of uninsured children go
without the annual check-ups all children need. One in four uninsured children don't have a
regular doctor.
Studies show that health care costs are continuing to rise; more and more employers are
dropping family coverage from their standard benefit plans; and more and more working parents
are finding that they cannot afford individual insurance for their children.
What this means is that too many children who have trouble seeing a blackboard do not
get the glasses they need to correct their vision; too many nagging coughs go untreated until they
worsen into life-threatening conditions that may require costly treatments and lengthy hospital
stays; too many parents must face the impossible choice between buying medicine for that sick
child or food for the entire family.
We must do better than this. We have worked hard to try and understand the barriers
which prevent children from buying health care coverage and how we can help overcome them.
In fact, today I am releasing a report done by the Department of Labor and the Department of
Health and Human Services that looks at the children without health insurance and at factors that
keeps them uninsured.
Our report finds that poverty alone does not explain why so many children lack health
care insurance. In fact, two-thirds of children without health care insurance are above our
national poverty level. Over 90 percent of these children have parents who work.
The report also tells us that our public programs have served effectively to address the
problem of uninsured children. While the number of uninsured middle class children has
climbed, Medicaid has reduced the number of poor uninsured children by 10 percent. And states
have demonstrated that given resources and flexibility, they can design innovative and targeted
�programs that extend meaningful coverage to their children.
Given this evidence, we know that we can expand these programs to help millions of
children who currently lack health care coverage.
That is why I fought so hard to make sure that there was $16 billion in the Budget
Agreement for children's health care. And that is also why I am continuing to fight to ensure that
this investment is used to provide meaningful coverage for as many children as possible.
First and foremost, we must ensure that this money is used to provide meaningful
coverage to children. There have been some in Congress who have advocated proposals that
would have permitted states to use the $16 billion for purposes other than expanding health
insurance coverage to children and would have allowed states to offer health plans tha lack many
of the important benefits children need.
We are continuing to work with the Congress to ensure that this investment provides
coverage which includes a much stronger benefits package and ensures that the new money for
children's health will only cover new expansions for children's coverage.
I also believe that we need to continue to work to ensure that the final bill includes
provisions that guarantee that low-income children are not exposed to excessive cost sharing. I
will continue to work to ensure that the final children's health legislation provides children with
a meaningful benefits package and covers the most children possible.
�
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Michael Waldman
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<p>Michael Waldman was Assistant to the President and Director of Speechwriting from 1995-1999. His responsibilities were writing and editing nearly 2,000 speeches, which included four State of the Union speeches and two Inaugural Addresses. From 1993 -1995 he served as Special Assistant to the President for Policy Coordination.</p>
<p>The collection generally consists of copies of speeches and speech drafts, talking points, memoranda, background material, correspondence, reports, handwritten notes, articles, clippings, and presidential schedules. A large volume of this collection was for the State of the Union speeches. Many of the speech drafts are heavily annotated with additions or deletions. There are a lot of articles and clippings in this collection.</p>
<p>Due to the size of this collection it has been divided into two segments. Use links below for access to the individual segments:<br /><a href="http://clinton.presidentiallibraries.us/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=43&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=2006-0469-F+Segment+1">Segment One</a><br /><a href="http://clinton.presidentiallibraries.us/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=43&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=2006-0469-F+Segment+2">Segment Two</a></p>
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Michael Waldman
Office of Speechwriting
Date
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1993-1999
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2006-0469-F
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Segment One contains 1071 folders in 72 boxes.
Segment Two contains 868 folders in 66 boxes.
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Clinton Presidential Records: White House Staff and Office Files
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William J. Clinton Presidential Library & Museum
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Adobe Acrobat Document
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paper
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[League of Cities Research]: Kaiser
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Office of Speechwriting
Michael Waldman
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Box 21
<a href="http://clinton.presidentiallibraries.us/items/show/36404"> Collection Finding Aid</a>
<a href="https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7763296">National Archives Catalog Description</a>
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2006-0469-F Segment 2
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White House Staff and Office Files
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William J. Clinton Presidential Library & Museum
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Adobe Acrobat Document
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Preservation-Reproduction-Reference
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6/3/2015
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7763296
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