The Academy will be addressing a wide variety of issues critical to children's health during the 111th Congress, including health reform. The Academy has been sounding the call that health reform must begin with, and include children’s access to quality care. The Department of Federal Affairs has identified specific areas in which we feel child health reform is necessary and have developed detailed one-pagers to address these topics. DOFA is aggressively reaching out to Capitol Hill and the White House with these materials, and we are hopeful that our message is being heard.

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