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Title: House votes health insurance for 4 million more children, including many non-citizen kids
Source: Chicago Tribune
URL Source: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ ... alth-insurance,0,2191971.story
Published: Jan 14, 2009
Author: Kevin Freking
Post Date: 2009-01-16 00:23:57 by X-15
Keywords: None
Views: 685
Comments: 10

Making a down payment on President-elect Barack Obama’s promise of universal health coverage, the House voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to expand government-sponsored insurance to 4 million more children in working families with income too high to qualify for Medicaid.

Between 300,000 and 600,000 of the new enrollees could be non-citizen children of legal immigrants who have been in the country less than five years, a sticking point for some Senate Republicans who also will consider a similar bill.

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Forty Republicans joined Democrats in passing the bill 289-139. Congress passed similar legislation in 2007 but it was vetoed both times by departing President George W. Bush.

The bill would raise the federal excise tax on cigarettes by 61 cents to $1 a pack to pay for the $32.3 billion cost of expanding the State Children’s Health Insurance Program for the next 4 1/2 years. Other tobacco products would experience a comparable tax increase.

About 7 million children now get government-sponsored health care through SCHIP.

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“This is only the beginning of the change we will achieve with our new president,” said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., who got a congratulatory call from Obama after the vote.

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The bill would provide coverage for pregnant legal immigrants in addition their non-citizen children who entered the U.S. in the past five years.

Current law requires a five-year waiting period before legal immigrants become eligible for coverage under Medicaid and SCHIP. Supporters say expanding coverage would mean children could get treatment for acute conditions like asthma and diabetes so they were less likely to need care in an emergency room.

“These are not illegal immigrants. They are children who go to school, go to daycare with our children, our grandchildren,” said Rep. Gene Green, D-Texas. “Those children ought to have health care.”

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#2. To: X-15 (#0) (Edited)

Oh that's very nice. I was told by a bleeding heart airhead that keeping illegals healthy will keep all of us legal citizens healthier too. Thusly and therefore not only am I happy to pay higher taxes for healthcare of middle class families' children so their parents can spend their $ on kitchen remodels and vacations to France but I'm absolutely thrilled to pay for illegals' childrens' health care because I get better health in return.

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keeping illegals healthy will keep all of us legal citizens healthier too.

Damn straight: WE pay to keep illegals TB-free so we don't catch it ourselves. I fully despise our government from top to bottom, I'm fully ready for an armed revolution to install the government our Founding Fathers gave us, not the bastardized-version we've got right now.

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