“Medicaid helps my medically fragile patients have full and active lives. From allowing a child on a ventilator to attend school, to allowing children born premature to make it to the staggering number of specialists they have to see without Medicaid none of this would be possible. It also helps my patients whose families do not have the means to buy health insurance or pay co-pays to get regular care. This allows us to intervene on things like asthma and diabetes before they are life threatening. It also allows us to identify behavioral or developmental differences early enough to act and allow those kids to reach their full potentials.”

— Nicole Jaffe, MD, Developmental Pediatrician, Philadelphia, PA