KENNEDY RESPONDS TO REPORTS THAT ADMINISTRATION WILL DENY TREATMENT TO IMMIGRANTS WITH CANCER

WASHINGTON, DC— Today, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Chairman of the SenateHealth, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, released the following statement inresponse to this morning’s New York Times story detailing Medicaid’s decision to denychemotherapy to illegal immigrants with cancer. “It's unbelievable that in a single week the Bush Administration says it will veto healthcare for poor children and now will deny chemotherapy for immigrants with cancer.These are not questions of dollars and cents but of life and death affecting millions of realpeople. These are the decisions of an Administration utterly out of touch with thenation's values." ###