31.   Mike Jones, a spokesman for Bush, said the state has taken steps to improve outreach to families with uninsured children.

32.   More than half of uninsured children have parents who work year round at full-time jobs.

33.   Much of that money would be earmarked for health care for uninsured children.

34.   Most of the other uninsured children come from families too well off for Medicaid but too poor to buy private coverage.

35.   Nearly two-thirds of uninsured children in Texas live in households with a parent who works full-time.

36.   Ninety percent of uninsured children in California live in families with at least one employed parent.

37.   Next year, the state plans to introduce the Healthy Families Program that will provide health coverage for uninsured low-income children.

38.   On health care, Harshbarger scolded Cellucci for vetoing legislation that would have increased the tobacco tax to pay for covering uninsured children.

39.   One important exception to the trivial tone was the call for making health care coverage available to every uninsured child in the state.

40.   One positive development in health insurance is the federal-state initiative to extend coverage to uninsured children.