Golinkin closed RediClinic's two worst-performing outlets in poor, Spanish-speaking neighborhoods in 2006 and decided he would have better luck targeting time-pressed suburbanites with kids and insurance.
For starters, expect quick enactment of legislation expanding the scope of SCHIP (State Children's Health Insurance Program), which Bill Clinton began in the 1990s to make sure kids had health insurance even if their families didn't qualify for Medicaid.
And try using the passivity defense when the judge orders you to pay child support, or purchase health insurance for one of your kids, or buy accident insurance before you drive.
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Even kids without health insurance.
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Dems have been pushing the bill as a way to give health insurance to kids from families that make too much money to qualify for Medicaid but not enough for private insurance.
Some of you supported efforts to provide insurance to children and let kids remain covered on their parents' insurance until they're 25 or 26.
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"Goode's Field Road" is about a junkyard operator who commits suicide so his wife and kids can get his insurance.
But I also know that when it comes to keeping our kids on our health insurance policies until they are 26 or finally being permitted to purchase health insurance on a community rated, guaranteed issue basis even if we suffer a pre-existing health problem, people feel very differently.
Our kids can stay on our insurance until they're 26 years old because of health reform.
Five kids would be a good insurance policy against grandchildlessness.
The latest example involves insurance for sick kids.
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There are kids right now who have health insurance coverage, even though they have a pre-existing condition because of the Affordable Care Act.
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But for human health care, when our own lives are in danger, or our wife's or our husband's or our kids', we want the insurance company to pull up to the hospital with a huge truck full of money.
If the price of peace in Washington is cutting deals to kick students off of financial aid, or get rid of funding for Planned Parenthood, or let insurance companies discriminate against kids with preexisting conditions, or eliminate health care for millions on Medicaid who are poor, or elderly, or disabled -- I won't pay that price.
It's what's allowing your kids to potentially stay on your health insurance policy up to 26 years old. (Applause.) It's helping seniors get a better deal on their prescription drugs.
Parents with kids in the back have the extra safety insurance of Audi side assist for their blind spots.
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And Randy's life insurance is already in a separate irrevocable life insurance trust for Penny and the kids, so it doesn't count against the exemption, either.
And I'm going to keep on fighting for real, meaningful health insurance reform. (Applause.) We expanded the Children's Health Insurance Program to include four million kids -- we already did that.
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Recently, Kristin Rubin got a job with the charter school the kids attend, and the family now has health insurance through her job.
I'm not going to ask students who are here to pay more for college, or kick kids out of Head Start, or eliminate health insurance for millions of Americans just to pay for a tax cut we don't need -- tax cut we don't need.
Investing in kids' health now and lowering that percentage could save all health insurance companies money down the line.
It is wrong for parents to have to choose between care for themselves or their children, to be stuck in dead-end jobs just to keep their insurance, or to give up working altogether so their kids will qualify for Medicaid.
Coverage of kids: Parents will be allowed to keep their children on their health insurance plan until age 26, unless the child is eligible for coverage through a job.
In retrospect, I realize I did this a few years ago after our kids were born and I felt strongly that we did not have enough life insurance.
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"We wanted some protection from teenage kids, souped-up cars, " said Jim Holdread, a retired insurance marketing manager who moved into an active-adult home in Orlando late last year.
And we were concerned when last week, some indicated that insurance companies would choose to stop offering policies for children rather than cover kids with pre-existing conditions.
If you get your insurance through your employer, we'll change the cutoff on how old your kids can be to remain on your plan -- we'll raise that to 26 years old.
In other words, you talked about kids and preexisting conditions -- will people notice that immediately on day one in talking to their insurance companies?
After granting waivers to companies to avoid embarrassing insurance lapses, and now ripping up the rules on making coverage more affordable for sick kids, one wonders what politically expedient retroactive redo is next?
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