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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 |
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The rhetoric is flying fast and furiously over the president’s promised and certainly pending veto of the newly expanded State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). The SCHIP has actually been in existence since the majority Republican congress passed it in 1997 and for 10 years it has been providing health insurance for the children of low-income families who are making more than they are allowed to, to qualify for Medicaid, but not enough to purchase health insurance — that is, at least, how the program is explained by the media. Now, however, since the congress is controlled by a Democratic majority, and since they operate on the assumption that anything that President Bush thinks is good is, in reality, rotten to the core, they decided to make the SCHIP bigger so it covers more people (and costs more). Here are the basic opposing points of view as I understand them: Those Senators and Congressmen who voted against the new SCHIP are saying they did so because [ Full article ] |
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