During this year’s budget negotiations, Assemblyman Dinowitz worked to pass legislation to expand New York’s Child Health Insurance Program to 400 percent of the poverty level - or $68,000 for a family of three - which would cover an additional 70,000 uninsured children.

Sadly, the Bush administration is once again ignoring those who need the most help by rejecting New York State’s effort to expand this health insurance program.

In fact, instead of working with state governments across the nation to help the millions of children without health insurance, the Bush administration has implemented a new policy that cripples states’ efforts to cover more children and imposes tremendous obstacles - denying children of working families the health care they so desperately need.

Assemblyman Dinowitz refuses to let the Bush administration slight our children. Even though the Bush administration is denying New York’s request to cover children with family incomes higher than 250 percent of the poverty level, Assemblyman Dinowitz will work with his colleagues in the Assembly, Governor Spitzer and New York’s congressional delegation to overturn this policy and get the health care coverage our children need and deserve.

Join Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz in opposing the Bush administration’s denial of crucial health care to 70,000 uninsured New York children by filling out the form below and sending it to his district office. Assemblyman Dinowitz will then deliver all forms to Dennis G. Smith, director of the federal Center for Medicaid and State Operations, urging him to reevaluate the impact that the Bush administration’s policy will have on the health and well-being of thousands of uninsured children in New York.