Susie Flynn Campaign
The CDF sponsored a nine-year-old girl for the 2008 Presidential Election, on the platform that nine-million American children lack Health Insurance. Her message, featured in various blogs and articles, is that people need to focus on this issue. The CDF sponsors Susie's message to pass a current bill in the United States House of Representatives that would provide such Health Insurance coverage to the kids who lack it, and will even cover pregnant woman for a while after giving birth.
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