The current economic crisis must be more frightening to the 47 million Americans that have no health insurance than anyone amongst us. For sometime now, employers have been increasingly moving health care costs back to employees and workers are struggling to pay higher premiums, deductibles and in some cases have no coverage at all.
The most neglectful part of these statistics lie in the fact that 8.7 million children are amongst the silent sufferers. To work hard is part of the American dream but working families are faced with double-digit increases in health insurance, forced to pay out-of-pocket for doctors visits, fast-rising prescriptions costs and many are being forced to decline coverage for their families and delay getting much needed medical care.
If you are single parent, teenage mother or low to moderate-income family, you should know that Congress passed the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) in 1997 to work with Medicaid to expand health coverage to the 8.7 million children in America that lack health insurance.
Don't be a victim, arm yourself with knowledge by visiting this outreach organization. This is an example of the importance of "community organizers" like Obama in the hood and under-privileged communities.
If you are a young "community organizer", you can use your interest in rap music to show your peeps how the vanguard rap music community can be used to motivate young people to be organizers by sharing rap music and vital information to hip hop groups.
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