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IN a decade that has produced precious little good news about health care and health insurance, one of the remarkable success stories is a federal-state partnership known as the State Children's Health Insurance Program. Since its creation in 1997, SCHIP has cut the number of uninsured American children by one-third, generally at low cost and generally in a way that governors could tailor to local needs.
Reauthorizing the program should have been easy. Bills emerged in Congress with bipartisan backing and more than 30 governors, Republicans and Democrats, wrote letters of support.See the full content of this document
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Kids' Health Care Shouldn't Be Veto Bait
So it's a mystery why President Bush has chosen SCHIP for a veto showdown wit...
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