more insurance and access would make a difference. talk about childhood asthma. what do we know about it as a distar pi and what difference it might make to have insurance access? >> a child should never die of asthma, should never have to be in the icu. asthma is a treatable condition. when you're diagnosed, there are clear guidelines your doctor should be able to offer you. but treatment can be expensive. following all of the regulations can be important. you need a school environment, a whole system to care for that child with asthma and that's what's difficult. >> there was a study maybe in the "journal of pediatrics" who said people who said their children were on medicaid, doctors, 55% of the time if their kid had an acute asthma attack, 5% of the time the doc would say i don't have an appointment for you, whereas if the kid had prooifs insurance, under 10% of the doctors would turn down those patients.