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• Bush To America's Children: Drop Dead

  Published: August 20, 2007, 10:24 pm

  Tags: Schip

  children." The beef with SCHIP that Bush has? It interferes with private insurance. Forget about the fact that there are millions children currently uninsured, and millions more that are underinsured. Nothing could be clearer in terms of the priorities of this Administration. To minimize the risk of such substitution, Mr. Smith said in his

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• Bush cuts tens of thousands of children out of health insurance program

  Published: August 21, 2007, 9:04 am

  Tags: Schip, Insurance

  If you agree that children should be cut off from health insurance, then please do vote Republican. Bush was opposed to this program from the start. He tried to kill its reauthorization. And now he's trying to dismantle it for tens of thousands of kids. Welcome to the Republican party.

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• SCHIP: The GOP Campaign Against Children

  Published: September 22, 2007, 10:43 am

  Tags: Schip, State Children S Health Insurance Program

  he’d veto it. The SCHIP program has been a great success by all accounts. This issue brief by  Mathematica is a good read for anyone wanting to come up to speed on the topic. Mathematica's 7 year study of SCHIP was submitted to the Feds as part of the deliberative process. Why SCHIP? SCHIP was enacted at a time when the number

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• 24 Republican Votes Short

  Published: September 25, 2007, 11:17 pm

  Tags: Schip

  or data, or history (SCHIP was a bipartisan Congressional bill) or public opinion. This was about ideology, and the need to back the President knowing that he was on the wrong side of the issue (that's what Republican moderates do). The Senate will overwhelmingly pass this bipartisan bill. And the Republicans will pay for not overriding

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• KY-Sen: Pressuring the GOP on SCHIP

  Published: September 25, 2007, 5:37 pm

  Tags: Ky Sen, Schip, Charles Grassley, Senate, Kentucky, Mitch Mcconnell, 2008

  Democrats, he would send the SCHIP expansion to a vote every three months, along with campaign advertisements accusing Republicans of abandoning children. That way, pressure would mount either on Bush to sign the bill or on House Republicans to override the veto. Thanks Chuck! Great idea.

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• The Cheese Stands Alone

  Published: September 25, 2007, 11:49 am

  Tags: Health Care, Schip, Health Insurance, George W Bush

  to use their government SCHIP money to help low-income parents pay for their children's' healthcare through their employer-provided insurance. The insurance industry isn't the only group that's in favor of the SCHIP expansion.  Cue Sister Carol Keehan, of the Catholic Health Association of America. "Reauthorizing SCHIP represents

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• Is the AP Beginning to Go After a Do-Nothing Democratic Congress?

  Published: September 25, 2007, 5:28 pm

  Tags: 2006 Congressional, 2008 Congressional, George W Bush, Liberals Amp Amp Democrats, Schip, Associated Press, Google News

  Insurance Program, [SCHIP] but the AP didn't tell the whole story. Why omit the 61-cent tobacco tax increase required by SCHIP? No mention of the financially collapsing entitlement programs, like Social Security and Medicare, that were so important to the media in 2006 or the fact that this $35 million is only a starting price, either.

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• OH-10: Ugh

  Published: September 27, 2007, 6:14 pm

  Tags: Dennis Kucinich, Schip, Oh 10, 2008, Ohio, President, House

  to vote against the SCHIP bill in the House. Apparently, it wasn't perfect enough. One of his two primary challengers, Rosemary Palmer: I was appalled by Congressman Kucinich’s vote against the State Children’s Health Insurance Program on the House floor tonight. This bill would have expanded an already successful program

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• SCHIP Vote In The News

  Published: September 27, 2007, 1:41 pm

  Tags: Schip, State Children S Health Insurance Program

  into the debate, see this SCHIP primer on how it has succeeded in improving poor children's health care access and shielding it from economic uncertainty, and this article on what the public thinks. Update [2007-9-27 12:41:52 by DemFromCT]:: SCHIP passes to pass in Senate. The Economist says For Bush, read Scrooge. Mort Kondrake says All

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• SCHIP Is Sent To the President In Bipartisan Fashion

  Published: September 28, 2007, 12:23 am

  Tags: Schip

  this evening means the SCHIP bill will be sent to President Bush with a rousing bipartisan endorsement. It's so bipartisan that it passed both chambers with ease. 18 Republicans in the Senate joined the 45 Republicans in the House to pass this bill. And because that might not be enough for a veto override, members of the House (including my

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• The New SCHIP: Using the Children!

  Published: September 29, 2007, 1:35 am

  Tags: Controversy, Health, Politics, Society Amp Amp Culture, Bush Veto, Children S Health Care, Schip

  that this new incarnation of SCHIP would allow adults to receive SCHIP benefits (taking benefits away from children), allow illegal immigrants to receive SCHIP benefits (taking benefits away from American children) and cost the taxpayers tens of billions of additional dollars. Those Senators and Congressmen who voted for the new SCHIP are

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• More on SCHIP

  Published: September 29, 2007, 12:13 pm

  Tags: Schip

  Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and Medicaid. Many states are now poised to make further progress, but their ability to do so will depend in large part on the strength of SCHIP reauthorization legislation. Without adequate and predictable SCHIP funding and new tools to encourage and support coverage efforts, the number of uninsured children

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• Public Prefers Democrats On SCHIP (And Iraq)

  Published: October 1, 2007, 8:01 pm

  Tags: Schip, Poll

  own post), the polling on SCHIP is crystal clear. Bush and the Republicans may also be headed for a political setback from the fight over the State Children's Health Insurance Program, even if Congress fails to override Bush's threatened veto, with broad bipartisan support for the new legislation. More than seven in 10 support the planned

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• Republicans in Disarray, Blame Democrats For Their Disarray

  Published: October 2, 2007, 1:51 pm

  Tags: Schip, Roy Blunt, Healthcare, Medicare, Republicans

  serious about extending the SCHIP program in a responsible, sustainable way, they'll have to start working with House Republicans to craft a bill that can be signed into law. Funny, that Blunt is blaming Democrats, when he could just as easily blame ultra-liberals in the Senate such as...Orin Hatch and Charles Grassley. It seemed at the

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• 72%

  Published: October 3, 2007, 2:01 pm

  Tags: George W Bush, Schip

  ABC News/WaPo. 9/27-30. All adults. MoE 3% (No trend lines) There's a proposal to increase federal spending on children's health insurance by 35 billion dollars over the next five years. It would be funded by an increase in cigarette taxes. Supporters say this would provide insurance for millions of low-income children who are currently

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