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A Great Week for Children's Health
Aug 10, 2007

Your voices have been heard! Before leaving for its August recess, the House passed the Children's Health and Medicare Protection (CHAMP) Act, a bill that would strengthen and improve health coverage for uninsured children. Specifically, it includes more than $47 billion in new funding over 5 years to provide health coverage for uninsured children under the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and Medicaid, as well as policy improvements that will help states cover 4.1 million of the nine million uninsured children in America today. Meanwhile, the Senate also passed a bill to strengthen and improve SCHIP. The Senate bill includes only $35 billion in new funding over 5 years and it has fewer policy improvements than the House-passed bill, which will only help states cover 3.1 million uninsured children. Although neither of the bills would provide health coverage to all uninsured children, they both take a step towards reducing the number of uninsured children substantially. All of this progress would not have been possible without everyone’s hard work — including yours! Thanks to all of you for your hard work- from Susie and from the millions of children without coverage- in reaching out to your members of Congress and letting them know that 9 million uninsured children need a solution- today. However, Susie’s mission is far from over. The House- and Senate-passed bills will now go to conference, where their differences will be resolved, and when Congress reconvenes in September, both legislative bodies are expected to vote on the negotiated package. On top of that, the final bill still faces the threat of a veto from President Bush. Now is the time to tell our elected officials that EVERY child matters and demand they fund an expansion of SCHIP to at least the $47 billion level as proposed by the House. Millions of children are counting on you!
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Posted: Friday August 10, 2007, 11:02 am
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