According to news reports, the senator is quoted as saying, “New York, more than 40,000 children were hospitalized overnight for asthma between 2005 to 2007. More than 370,000 children in the state, 14 percent of low-income children and 8 percent of all children, suffer from asthma.
Asthma costs the country more than $16 billion a year [...]

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