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America's `most precious resource at risk,' new president says: Barriers must fall to child health care access, coverage vows Alpert

Vowing to fight "until no financial barrier exists between children and the health services to which they have right," Joel Alpert, M.D., FAAP, assumed presidency of the Academy at the 1998 Annual Meeting in San Francisco.

"Our country has placed children, its most precious resource, at risk," Dr. Alpert told colleagues during a speech at the AAP Annual Business Luncheon Oct. 20.

"The continuing failure to provide health insurance for all of our country's children is incompatible with our most democratic traditions."

Noting that the last decade has brought an increase in the number of uninsured Americans, Dr. Alpert lauded AAP efforts on behalf of Title XXI, the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). "I am proud of how pediatricians continue to place themselves at financial risk by accepting as patients children whose health insurance, especially Medicaid and SCHIP, offers inadequate reimbursement that too often does not cover office overhead."