0: We, we kicked off something a year or so ago called Cover Our Kids,
which was focused on making sure that all of our kids have
healthcare. And we started with documented kids.
Uh, and the program is racked up 47,000 of them,
but today is a day where we take a huge step.
We're assuming that your family's at the Medicaid eligible income level,
that we're gonna cover all kits, uh, regardless of immigration status.
And that'll include another probably 16,000 kits. So it's a huge,
huge day. And for everybody out there who says we've, uh, we,
we don't do these sorts of things anymore.
Today is an example that we care deeply about these kids and about
causes like this that I'm incredibly honored to be. Well, we need,
we need organizations in the communities to promote this. We also, uh,
have already done, and we'll do more state level marketing, uh, which we did,
uh, in a big way when the first phase of this kicked off.
And we'll continue to do it. Listen, I think the, we have to solve the border.
We have to solve immigration more broadly. Uh,
but using human beings as pawns is no way to solve this. Yes,
it will cost more money. And how will you pay yours? We'll,
we'll work with the legislature and we'll get it appropriated. Um,
it's money well spent, uh,
and it will be incrementally less expensive than the first wave because just to
the prior question,
that first wave included a lot of marketing and awareness money,
which was not specific to the kid.
This will have probably a little bit less than that in more money on the barrel.