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Letters to the Editor

Extend children’s health program

All children deserve access to health care, even those from low-income families. More than nine million children will be impacted if the federal Children’s Health Insurance Program isn't reauthorized.

It has been a very successful program, and those who are truly family-values politicians will support and expand the program because there is nothing more important to families than the health and lives of their children.

Martha Brown

Columbia

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