GAO-08-50, State Children's Health Insurance Program: Program ...
In 2006 about 4.5 million individuals were enrolled in the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). Congress created SCHIP with the goal of significantly reducing the number of low-income uninsured children. ...
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State Children’s Health Insurance Program
On Wednesday the House voted 411-3 S.2499, the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007, which continues funding for the State Children’s Health Insurance Program through March of 2009. In addition, the bill delays an ...
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Bush Says Poor Children Don't Need SCHIP
Right smack dab in the middle of the holiday season, President Bush has vetoed for the second time the extension of federal funding for the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). But is it worse that Bush vetoed it again or ...
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Dec 13, 2007 - Bush Vetoes Second SCHIP Bill
Last Wednesday, President Bush once again vetoed the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) bill, "effectively killing Democrats' hopes of expanding a popular government program aimed at providing insurance to youngsters in ...
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PENCE TO SUPPORT STATE CHILDREN'S HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM
For Immediate Release Pence To Support State Children's Health Insurance Program Contact: Matt Lloyd (202) 226-4379.
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House Clears Medicare, Children's Health Extensions, but Parties ...
The House Wednesday cleared legislation to extend funding for the State Children’s Health Insurance Program and stop a cut to doctors’ Medicare payment rates.
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Children's health-plan cost to drop
New Jersey children will soon have access to low-cost health insurance, Gov. Jon S. Corzine formally announced Wednesday. But he has his eye on a broader goal: universal health coverage for the entire state.
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Child health insurance expansion shelved
WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Democrats appear to have ceded a yearlong fight to expand US children's health insurance, as the Senate passed a measure keeping existing coverage until 2009.
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Ohio's Children's Health-Care Expansion Plan Hits Major Snag
... increase the number of uninsured children eligible for government health coverage next year suffered a blow Wednesday when Congress abandoned its months long effort to enact a sweeping expansion of a children's health insurance program.
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New Jersey Is Much Better Than Texas
[T]he new program will allow parents, regardless of income, to enroll their children in the state's FamilyCare health insurance plan, which is currently limited to low- and moderate-income families. Parents who earn more than the ...
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[+1084] Bush Veto's Childrens Health Insurance Bill
President Bush vetoed legislation Wednesday that would have expanded government-provided health insurance for children, his second slap-down of a bipartisan effort in Congress to dramatically increase funding for the popular program.
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Chris Weigant: Democrats Cave On SCHIP
The Hill has the sad story of how congressional Democrats just completely and utterly caved on the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) bill. [This article is depressing for a Democrat to read, I have to warn you. ...
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Heller and Porter want to come home? Vote 19 times for adjournment
October 25, 2007, Roll Call 1005 during consideration of HR 3963, the Childrens Health Insurance Program; failed 165-224; Porter and Heller voting “yes,” Berkley voting “no.” November 6, 2007, Roll Call 1049 before taking up the ...
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Taxes, Health Care and S-CHIP Funding
If you were following the news this fall, you saw an intense battle over future of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, or S-CHIP for short. At the center of the debate was whether to continue and possibly expand this program ...
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White House prevails on SCHIP
It seems that the long-running battle to reauthorize and extend the State Children's Health Insurance Program - or SCHIP - coming to a close. And from the looks of things, it looks like President George W. Bush got his way. ...
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Affordable Healthcare for Kids: How It's Done
David Chen at the New York Times has the scoop on how the state will be able to provide low-cost health insurance for all children at no additional expense to taxpayers:. As many as 15000 children who currently lack insurance could ...
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Comments About : Bush Vetoes The State Children's Health Insurance ...
But that still leaves the 4 million children who would have been included under the vetoed bills without health insurance. Overall, there are nearly 9 million children without health insurance. Bush issued a series of misleading ...
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Eric Emmanuel: Just Work: CA's Healthcare Plan, a Good Choice for ...
This year -- just like every year for the past four years -- I had to choose between taking a significant pay cut or losing my family's health insurance. It's an impossible choice. How do you choose between putting food on the family ...
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Bush Vetoes The State Children's Health Insurance Program A Second ...
US President George W Bush has vetoed the redrafted expansion of the state children's health insurance program, saying that the country should be trying to move more children into private health cover rather than move children who ...
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Eric Emmanuel: Just Work: CA's Healthcare Plan, a Good Choice for ...
The California health care solution will provide public assistance and tax breaks to those of us who work hard but still can't cover today's astronomical health insurance rates. More than 30 million Californians will be covered under ...
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Lame Duck Crushes Christmas Turkeys
Last, but not least in the least, the Democrats have finally caved on the awful expansion of SCHIP, the State Children's Health Insurance Program. SCHIP was originally intended, when enacted in 1997, to offer health insurance to ...
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Bush Vetoes another Children’s Health Insurance Bill
10 million kids won’t be getting health insurance for Christmas.
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Bush vetoes second bill expanding children's health insurance program
JENNIFER LOVEN Associated Press Writer (AP) - WASHINGTON-President George W. Bush vetoed legislation that would have expanded government-provided health insurance for children, his second slap-down of a bipartisan effort in Congress to ...
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Pelosi: Democrats Will Continue Fight for SCHIP Children's Health ...
Pelosi on Bush Veto of SCHIP Children's health insurance coverage: 'Democrats Will Not Rest Until 10 Million Children Have Access to Health Care.' Democrats to continue efforts for making affordable health insurance available to ...
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Senate, House Announce Agreement to Renew, Improve Chidren’s ...
Washington, DC – A bipartisan coalition of Senate and House leaders today announced a bicameral agreement to reauthorize the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) for an additional five years. CHIP provides health coverage to ...
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THE CANDIDATES MAKE THEIR CASE FOR BLACK VOTES
My plan will: (1) establish a new public insurance program, available to Americans who neither qualify for Medicaid or SCHIP [State Children's Health Insurance Program] nor have access to insurance through their employers, ...
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If You Want Children's Health Insurance, Try Impeachment
Since President Bush has vetoed children's health insurance funded by a cigarette tax again, Rep. Wexler wants an idea which combines two great ideas: children's health insurance and presidential impeachment.
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Congress Passes Bush-approved SCHIP Funding Bill
Congress has passed a bill extending funding for the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) program until March 31, 2009, without providing expanded funds necessary to provide health insurance coverage...
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NY-26: Powers picks up huge endorsement from local SEIU
From his blind support of the Iraq War to his senseless vetoes of children's health insurance, Reynolds has proved time and again that his loyalty is not to the people of Western New York but to President Bush - Western New Yorkers ...
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Congress Abandons Fiscal Responsibility
From student loan reforms to expansions of the State Children's Health Insurance Program and Food Stamps, Democrats have negotiated the turbulent fiscal waters of the federal budget responsibly, diligently, even courageously. ...
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Dems' SCHIP to again set sail, perhaps this week
But it looks as if the plan to expand the State Children's Health Insurance Program is coming back sooner rather than later---and in a form that will be familiar to all who have followed the debate. House Majority Leader Steny H. ...
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Tiahrt to his constituents= “Let the kids smoke”
I was not surprised to learn last week that President Bush again vetoed the latest bill reauthorizing the State Children's Health Insurance Program, nor that Rep. Todd Tiahrt, R-Goddard, has voted at least three times against new SCHIP ...
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Report Highlights Recent Children's Health Insurance Coverage ...
Editorials examine news about children's health coverage in Montana and Pennsylvania.
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To Expand Poor Children's Health Insurance, Democrats Take From ...
The Congressionally-approved expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program relies heavily on tobacco taxes that would raise the price of cigarettes by 61 cents per pack, reports the Associated Press. ...
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Bush Rewrites Rules on Children's Health Insurance
At issue is the State Children's Health Insurance Program, a popular initiative that provides coverage to six million kids and is now up for renewal. With another nine million children still lacking insurance, both the House and the ...
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I hope you're happy Joe. How many children will die because of ...
All Things Considered, December 19, 2007 · The Democratic-led Congress on Wednesday officially waved the white flag of surrender on its top domestic issue: the State Children's Health Insurance Program, or SCHIP. ...
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Bush vetoes children's health bill a second time
For the second time this year, US President George Bush took a health bill related to increasing health insurance for needy US children and vetoed it. Although Bush declared the bill would have overstepped the bounds of helping poor ...
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Bush plans another veto of children's health insurance expansion
WASHINGTON - President Bush on Wednesday was ready to veto legislation that passed with bipartisan support to dramatically expand government-provided health insurance for...
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President Bush Vetoes Childrens' Health Insurance Bill
President George Bush vetoed a bill that proposes to expand health insurance for children on Wednesday. He struck down the bipartisan legislation because it allows adults into the program, covers families above the US median and raises ...
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The California Healthcare Mess - Getting It Right Versus Getting ...
Under the proposal, almost all Californians would have to buy health insurance - but there are not sufficient guarantees that the insurance polices are going to be affordable. There will be direct subsidies for families making up to 2.5 ...
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Bush Vetoes Second Bill Expanding Children's Health Insurance Program
WHITE HOUSE (AP) -- President Bush has again vetoed legislation that would have expanded government-provided health insurance for children.
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Bush vetoes second bill expanding children's health insurance program
WASHINGTON -- President Bush vetoed legislation Wednesday that would have expanded government-provided health insurance for children, his second such slap-down of a bipartisan effort.
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Insurance news
WASHINGTON (AP) President Bush vetoed legislation Wednesday that would have expanded government-provided health insurance for children, his second slap-down of a bipartisan. Paul Rooney report a rise in winter sports travel insurance ...
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Rep. Diana DeGette: Bush Vetoes Children's Health -- Again
President George W. Bush has denied health care coverage to 10 million low-income children -- again. After his first veto of the State Children's Health Insurance Program, Democrats in Congress went to work to craft a new proposal that ...
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The S-Chip Grinch: No Health Insurance for You!
I don’t know what’s more despicable: The fact that George W. Bush, aka the children’s health insurance Grinch, has vetoed a childrens’ health care bill for the second time this year or the fact that he did it behind closed doors. ...
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News Roundup & Open Thread for Thursday, December 20, 2007
More of this please: real leadership from Governor Corzine and Senator Vitale, working to expand children's health insurance despite the Bush administration's pigheadedness. The Jersey Journal: waterboarding is torture and we shouldn't ...
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House Approves 6 Month .5% Medicare Physician Fee Increase
In continuing coverage from yesterday's briefing, Bloomberg (12/20, Goldstein, Johnston) reports that a "scheduled cut in Medicare payments to doctors will be postponed," and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) "will ...
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Children's health insurance
Children that are uninsured are 70% less likely to receive medical care for common conditions such as ear infections and are more likely to rely on expensive emergency rooms for routine care.
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Bush Vetoes Child Health Insurance Plan
President Bush, in a confrontation with Congress, on Wednesday vetoed a bipartisan bill that would have dramatically expanded children's health insurance. Channel: News Tags: President Bush Child Health Insurace Plan Congress.
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Bush ready with children's health-care veto No. 2
Democratic congressional leaders insist the expansion of a popular program which assists low-income families with health care could offer insurance to nearly 10 million children whose families cannot afford coverage on their own. ...
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