Childrenâs Health Bill Dispute Turns to Income Limits
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Could children with $83,000 of family income qualify for subsidized health insurance under the bipartisan bill passed by Congress and vetoed by President Bush?
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The Bush administration, engaged in a battle with Congress over whether a popular children's health insurance program should be expanded, has announced new policies that will make it harder for states to insure all but the lowest-income children.
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Congress probably will take its time in considering President Bush's plan for expanding health insurance coverage. Lawmakers, however, are moving more quickly to renew a program that now provides coverage to 6 million people, mostly children.
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WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration said Wednesday it will shift up to $660 million next year to keep children from losing government-paid health insurance.
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The modest spending increase that Congress approved for a popular children's health insurance program will maintain coverage for those already enrolled. But many lacking insurance will have to look elsewhere.
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The success of the decade-old Children's Health Insurance Program is exposing Washington's familiar ideological divisions over health care as Congress begins to work on renewing the state-federal program.
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New laws affecting your youngsters could increase your family's tax bill.
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NEW YORK -- Barely two years ago, Cristina Rodriguez and her three children were moored on the wrong side of the income gap. A high school dropout, she was making a little more than $200 a week, stapling price tags to shirts and boxing them at a Modell's warehouse. "I didn't use my mouth, didn't use my mind; I only used my hands. I was always going to be broke," she said....
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A Maryland family caught in the partisan crossfire over a children's health-care bill in Congress is now stepping back into the divisive debate, advocating this time for state legislation that would expand coverage for adults.
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Most of the 9 million U.S. children   who lack health insurance live with both parents, at least one   of whom works, a consumer group said on Thursday, in a finding   they said shows many people cannot afford health insurance   under the existing system.
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The popularity of health savings accounts for the poor will be put to the test in Indiana under a program approved Friday by the Bush administration. Under the plan, someone making $20,000 a year could get health coverage for about $19 a week.
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Health insurance for children and college loan help are priorities in Congress this fall.
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Several members of Congress recently made news when they tried to see if they could subsist on $21 per week -- the average amount that food stamp recipients receive to supplement their income.
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Defying a veto threat from President George W. Bush, the House of Representatives voted on Tuesday to expand a health care program for children in low-income families and raise tobacco taxes to pay for it.
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NEW YORK -- Barely two years ago, Cristina Rodriguez and her three children were moored on the wrong side of the income gap. A high school dropout, she was making a little more than $200 a week, stapling price tags to shirts and boxing them at a Modell's warehouse. "I didn't use my mouth, didn't use...
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Lawmakers in a key Senate committee brokered a bipartisan agreement Friday that they said would extend health insurance to an additional 3.3 million low-income children in the U.S.
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The House passed a bill to provide health insurance for 10 million children on Thursday, but supporters did not have enough votes to override the promised veto.