The Restemayers' story is a powerful reminder of why we all need to be rolling up our sleeves and making sure that health care reform works as intended for families and children.

if Congress and the Administration are unable to find a way to follow-through on health reform this time around, only time will tell how this missed opportunity would impact all of us, our children and our grandchildren. Let’s hope they are able to rise to the challenge so future generations won’t look back on this moment in history and think to themselves how much better life would be “if only …”

Families still reeling from the recession, feeling pessimistic about the future, and many of them struggling to cut back spending in order to cover health expenses – that is the portrait painted by the recent survey CCF conducted with Lake Research Partners. This is worrisome news for the fragile economic recovery with so many families feeling burdened with such heavy health care expenses. The survey also provides clues as to what the American public would like to see from health care reform by delving deeper into how families currently pay for health care and what the American people...

Julia Kaye is a Health Policy Associate at the National Women's Law Center and regular contributor at womenstake.org . The following was a guest post she wrote for Say Ahhh! There is a common misconception that all low-income people--or, at least, all poor parents--are eligible for Medicaid. It may derive from a mistaken comparison with Medicare; an assumption that just as Medicare covers all people above a certain age, Medicaid must cover all people below a certain income level. In fact, only certain, limited categories of low-income people--children and pregnant women are two examples--are...