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Children's Health Care Can't Wait for the Fixes

By Gene Sperling | February 23, 2007

The Children's Defense Fund recently reported the story of 13-year-old Devante Johnson, whose life-saving treatment for kidney cancer was delayed for four months after he was mistakenly dropped from a state-run, federally subsidized low-income children's health plan.

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This article was originally published in Bloomberg.

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