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Sat Apr 14, 2012, 11:21 AM Apr 2012

Would Romney roll back expansion of health insurance for children?

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Posted at 01:36 PM ET, 04/13/2012
Would Romney roll back expansion of health insurance for children?
By Greg Sargent

The Romney campaign has taken to claiming that the Obama administration raised taxes on “millions of Americans.” Post fact checker Glenn Kessler asked the Romney camp to justify the claim, and Romney advisers provided Kessler with a list of tax increases under Obama. snip

This raises a really interesting question for the Romney campaign, and I hope reporters ask it: If Romney opposes this tax, does that mean he also favors rolling back the CHIP expansion?

The answer to this question could feed into the current political debate. The CHIP expansion, which Obama signed into law in February 2009 and which stands as one of his key accomplishments, is designed to provide federally funded health care to four million more children — the children of parents who make too much to qualify for Medicaid, but don’t make enough to afford private insurance.

The expansion is paid for by the aforementioned cigarette tax, which Romney now opposes. So does he oppose the expansion? Would he favor rolling it back?

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