Governors seek aid for child health care
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Governors from both parties appealed Sunday for the Bush administration and Congress to provide more money &#151; now and over the long term &#151; for a health care program that insures millions of children.
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Healthcare experts call for more funding, better training, and changes in institutional culture.
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The nation's governors sought help Thursday from Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld in their ongoing fight against proposals in Congress to give President Bush more control &#151; and governors less &#151; over the National Guard during disasters.
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With the government's blessing, more than a dozen states secured health insurance coverage for adults under a program designed to help poor children. Now, there is not enough money to cover the kids.
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Political leaders and health workers launched a drive Saturday to immunise more than 80 million children against polio in 23 African nations and fight back against a resurgence of the crippling disease.
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RICHMOND, Jan. 4 -- As GOP legislators unveiled proposals Friday to overhaul Virginia's mental health system, advocates for the mentally ill urged Gov. Timothy M. Kaine and the General Assembly to pump tens of millions of additional dollars into underfunded programs.
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President Bush and other critics of a $35 billion spending increase for children's health insurance say they'll support expanding coverage to families of four making as much as $62,000 a year, but they want to limit states' ability to go beyond that level.
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Gov. Martin O'Malley and Democratic legislative leaders yesterday proposed providing health insurance to 100,000 poor uninsured adults in Maryland and subsidizing small businesses that offer coverage to their employees.
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Twenty-three of the country's governors have endorsed a presidential candidate at a time when their support matters most, lending their names, fundraising and organizing machinery to campaigns desperate for an edge in the primaries.
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Plans to boost the educational chances of children in care are to be outlined in a White Paper.
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The public is being asked to help the government come up with a 10-year plan to improve children's lives.
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Paid governors for groups of schools might be an answer to recruitment in poorer areas, a study suggests.
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Money is running out for some local governments who use pension funds to help pay for retired workersâ health care.
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In the year since a Prince George's County boy died of a dental infection, lawmakers say Maryland has begun addressing the structural problems and funding shortages that are blamed for breakdowns in the state's Medicaid system.
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Two years ago, the nation's governors were wrestling with exploding health care costs, soaring populations and agonizing choices over how to keep their Medicaid programs afloat.
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A bipartisan panel of governors has recommended that states expand access to pre-kindergarten and push for early childhood education efforts if they want to properly prepare kids for school.
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President Bush encouraged governors Monday to support his call for changing the tax code to help more people buy private health care insurance, but did not address their pleas to increase funding for a health care program that insures millions of children of the working poor.