There have been some tremendous advances in America’s health care reform which have led to the country’s 70 million children receiving coverage to meet their specific needs. Timely access is what will often save lives. This has resulted in “two patients from NewYork-Presbyterian/Phyllis and David Komansky Center for Children's Health and NewYork-Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital and their families went to Washington, D.C., to discuss their personal health care stories with lawmakers who are carefully monitoring how health reform implementation rolls out.” These families are Castro and McKiever (along with 30 other families from America). The obstacles that still remain include: inadequate amount of pediatric doctors; insufficient reimbursement from Medicaid for pediatric care; lack of consistency for quality measures and incentives across states; threat of more state-level Medicaid cuts.
