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Volume 358:869-872 February 28, 2008 Number 9 Next

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The conflagration over the reauthorization of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) offers a compelling example of Washington's current inability to address even seemingly uncontroversial matters such as improved health care coverage for children. After the House failed to override President George W. Bush's veto of a SCHIP expansion in October, Congressional leaders regrouped to develop a compromise measure that would address Bush's claim that the original bill "moves the health care system in the wrong direction."¹ SCHIP permits coverage of children in families whose incomes (according to evaluation methods developed by the states) are at or below 200% . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Professor Rosenbaum is chair of the Department of Health Policy and a professor of health law and policy at the School of Public Health and Health Services and a professor of health care sciences at the School of Medicine and Law, George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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