1.   Alpert said the American Academy of Pediatrics will release a plan later this week to insure all children.

2.   Among other things, it would, expand an existing government program to insure children.

3.   But the vice president did tell his aides to find a way for him to insure every child right away.

4.   Governors insist they will use the money as Congress intended, to insure more children.

5.   Insuring children, Giuliani said, would be the first priority.

6.   Privately, some lawmakers and policymakers question whether the government should be helping to insure children in families that make that much money.

7.   That left Bradley to behave, happily, like a high-minded front-runner, announcing a health-care plan that would require parents to insure all children at birth.

8.   The Clinton administration, for example, has proposed insuring children in families that are temporarily out of work.

9.   Under no circumstance will any family actually lose under the Steuerle plan, because families could also decline the tax credit and the attached obligation to insure their children.

10.   The program was intended to insure children from low-income families whose incomes are too high for Medicaid but too low to afford private insurance.