It has been a whirlwind couple of weeks for backers of the SCHIP bill.
Forty percent of respondents said they do think the SCHIP expansion might lead to government-run health care.
With SCHIP federal funding at a standstill, these 13 states' programs have run out of money.
The bill would kick out of SCHIP all adults without children and move them to Medicaid.
Last week, a Senate committee overwhelmingly approved a bipartisan bill to continue the popular SCHIP program.
An independent who voted for Bush in 2004, Altier said she disagrees with his veto of the SCHIP bill.
More than half of poll respondents did not think expanding SCHIP would lead to a government-run health care system.
Democrats have launched an advertising campaign against a handful of the Republicans who voted against SCHIP.
More than a quarter of children of Wal-Mart employees therefore got their insurance through Medicaid or SCHIP.
Of the 9 million children who don't have coverage, 6 million are eligible for SCHIP or Medicaid.
That should start with getting those eligible for State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and Medicaid enrolled.
The Senate is working on a more bipartisan companion bill to renew and expand the SCHIP program.
Send Federal spending on Medicaid and SCHIP back to the states under the same finite block grant formula.
It has necessitated expansions of various costly health care entitlement programs like SCHIP.
Generally, the federal government foots 70% of the bill for each state's SCHIP program, with the states covering the rest.
These attitudes may affect the political support for the current SCHIP bill and the crucial question of who should qualify.
In the case of yesterday's bill, Democrats would actually repeal parts of the 2003 Medicare bill to finance the SCHIP expansion.
Programs like Medicaid and SCHIP have helped the poor and uninsured immensely but threats to those programs, and especially to Medicaid, remain.
During this session of Congress, however, Democrats passed legislation exponentially widening the scope of SCHIP to include children and adults from some middle-income families.
Last year there were 70 million Medicare, Medicaid and SCHIP beneficiaries.
That's the State Children's Health Insurance Program, known as the SCHIP.
Bush said he opposes the current bill because it would cause many families to drop private insurance and instead choose to cover their children under SCHIP.
Since SCHIP was signed into law, the uninsured rate among poor children has dropped to 16.9% in 2005 from 22.5% in 1996, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
The future of SCHIP is particularly significant to small business.
The combination of Medicaid and SCHIP helped reduce the number of uninsured children in the United States by a third from 1997 to 2005, according to the Kaiser Foundation.
Many policy analysts say that 200% is an irrelevant cutoff for SCHIP because it doesn't factor in the differences in health care premiums and cost of living among the states.
Families with children enrolled in the SCHIP programs in 13 states--Alaska, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Wisconsin--risk losing health insurance within weeks.
And in six states -New Jersey, Michigan, Indiana, Rhode Island, New Mexico and others - the fact is that they spend more SCHIP money on adults than they do on children.
If Congress and the president can't come up with a compromise by the end of fiscal 2008, 36 states would by then exhaust their SCHIP funding, according to the Congressional Budget Office report.
Before the expansion, SCHIP covered almost 7 million children whose parents earn too much to qualify for Medicaid -- the federal health insurance program for the poor -- but can't afford private insurance.
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