Consequences of the veto of SCHIP by Bush and their enablers in the House...

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Including 8 Democrats:Jim Marshall (D-GA), Baron Hill (D-IN), Gene Taylor (D-MS), Bob Etheridge (D-NC),
Mike McIntyre (D-NC), Dan Boren (D-OK), Kathy Castor (D-FL), and of course Dennis Kucinich (D-OH)

The Consequence of A Veto: Millions More Uninsured Children

New Census Bureau data show that after years of steady decline, the percent of children without health insurance has grown for two consecutive years. Over the most recent two-year period, one million more children became uninsured. If children continue to lose coverage at the rate they lost coverage this past year, every day nearly 2,000 children will join the ranks of the uninsured. This recent upturn reverses a nearly decade-long trend during which uninsured rates for children, particularly for low-income children, dropped sharply as a result of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and Medicaid. Many states are now poised to make further progress, but their ability to do so will depend in large part on the strength of SCHIP reauthorization legislation. Without adequate and predictable SCHIP funding and new tools to encourage and support coverage efforts, the number of uninsured children is certain to continue to rise.

CHIPRA is the combined Senate House version...

CHIPRA would nonetheless result in substantial gains for millions of children. The new funding levels and funding formula would put the program and children’s coverage on more secure financial footing. It would avoid future shortfalls and give states the resources to cover more uninsured children. Overall, with this funding, states are expected to cover close to 4 million children who otherwise would have been uninsured. President Bush has proposed $4.8 billion in new SCHIP funding over five years, a level that the CBO projects would result in no new coverage gains but rather in the loss of SCHIP coverage for over one million children.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/9/29/105649/366