The conflagration over the reauthorization of the State Children'sHealth Insurance Program (SCHIP) offers a compelling exampleof Washington's current inability to address even seeminglyuncontroversial matters such as improved health care coveragefor children. After the House failed to override President GeorgeW. Bush's veto of a SCHIP expansion in October, Congressionalleaders regrouped to develop a compromise measure that wouldaddress Bush's claim that the original bill "moves the healthcare system in the wrong direction."1 SCHIP permits coverageof children in families whose incomes (according to evaluationmethods 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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