A Battle Over Expansion of Childrenâs Insurance
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The seemingly uncontroversial goal of insuring more children has become the focus of an ideological conflict between the White House and Congress.
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The agreement on expanding a popular childrenâs health insurance program sets the stage for passage by Congress next week â and a showdown with President Bush.
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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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As a Senate committee prepares to approve an additional $35 billion for children's health insurance, the Bush administration spelled out its objections to how the increase would be paid for &#151; a 61-cent increase on the excise tax for a pack of cigarettes.
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President Bush called a popular childrenâs health insurance program âa step toward federalization of health care.â
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The U.S. Congress and President George W. Bush headed for a fresh showdown over children's health care on Thursday after the House of Representatives approved a new bill expanding a popular insurance program despite a White House veto threat.
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The fight over child health care shows how hard it will be for Democrats to sell Republicans on universal insurance.
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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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Though Washington was once a national leader in providing medical insurance for children, the state&#39;s youngest citizens are losing health coverage at an alarming rate, according to a report released yesterday that calls for Gov.
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Senate Democrats unveiled a spending blueprint yesterday that envisions a massive expansion of the nation's health-insurance program for children, as well as billions of additional dollars for other domestic priorities such as public education, veterans' health care and local police.
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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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Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday unveiled a revised bill to expand health insurance for needy children, hopeful they will muster enough support to override another possible veto by President George W. Bush.
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U.S. congressional leaders on Friday  said they reached agreement on legislation to expand a  health-care program for children in low-income families,  setting up a potential showdown with President George W. Bush  who has vowed to veto it.
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In a growing number of states, children can now stay on their parentsÂ health insurance plans well into their 20Âs.
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Democrats in Congress said Wednesday that they were willing to tweak, but not overhaul, a bill that would renew and expand the State Childrenâs Health Insurance Program.
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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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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.