USA Today

By: Jayne O’Donnell and Ken Alltucker

Samantha Bailey spends her days in a Phoenix hospital room with her 19-month-old son, Henry, waiting for a heart transplant and fretting about his health care once he gets it.

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With cuts anywhere near that size, “there’s absolutely no way kids can stay out of harm’s way,” says Joan Alker, executive director of the Georgetown University Center on Children and Families.

“We are asking Congress to focus on this and make sure that kids don’t get lost in the shuffle of all the fighting that is going on.” said Dana Wolfe Naimark, CEO of Children’s Action Alliance in Phoenix. “We are extremely concerned on the impact on kids. Everything is at risk.”

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