Offered
by
To memorialize the United States Congress to override the President's veto of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).
Referred to the Committee on Health Policy
Adopted in the House 72 to 34 (details)
To urge Congress to override the President's veto of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). This is a federal-funded, state managed program created to extend Medicaid-like health coverage to children of low income working families whose income exceeds Medicaid caps and who don't have private insurance, but which states have expanded to cover many adults. The vetoed bill would raise the family income cap to triple the poverty rate (up to $83,000 in some states) and increase spending on the program by $35 billion (funded by a tobacco tax hike). The President sought a $5 spending increase, and a provision prohibiting states to further expand coverage until 95 percent of uninsured low-income children were covered.
