Providers have found themselves doctoring a new national health crisis: the budget. The exam room is no longer the battle ground where lives are saved and lost. As Medicaid reimbursements to providers fall, as much as 40%, the physicians are finding their greatest battles are fought in state capitol buildings. Places where children are out of sight, and seemingly out of mind.

The impact of these cuts is evident in cities where doctors shutter their practices and families are forced to travel hundreds of miles to locate another specialist. According to a recent column in the Wall Street Journal, "while children have always made up about half of Medicaid's rolls, their numbers have swelled in recent years to the point that at least 22 million, or one in four, U.S. kids now get their health coverage through Medicaid or a state Children's Health Insurance Program."

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