oh, good lord, what next!!
SCHIP's fate may hang in balance
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/26834.htmlBy CARRIE BUDOFF BROWN | 9/8/09 4:37 AM EDT
President Barack Obama rarely passes up the chance to assure his audiences that if they like their insurance, they will be able to keep it under a reformed health care system.
But there is one group that could become an asterisk to his pledge: lower-income children.
Democratic members of Congress and advocacy groups are alarmed at a proposal in the Senate Finance Committee to move children out of the popular State Children’s Health Insurance Program when it expires in 2013 and into a new insurance exchange where they would be covered with their parents.
The proposal has stoked concern among advocates that the families of lower-income children could lose more than they gain in a health care overhaul, leaving them with higher out-of-pocket costs and fewer benefits. A bloc of liberal senators and 150 organizations have called on Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) to opt for continuity and maintain SCHIP as it is, at least until the kinks are worked out of the reformed system..............
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