SCHIP and State Standards

CONservative Spin:

“The SCHIP bill will use your taxpayer dollars to give insurance to all families of four earning $83,000.”
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PROgressive Response:

By Robert Borosage
December 13th, 2007
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The bill Bush vetoed would not change the current procedure, and would discourage states from expanding SCHIP to families making more then three times the federal poverty level—$61,950 for a family of four. Under current law, only the president can authorize states to use SCHIP to cover families earning $83,000.

SCHIP was designed to give states flexibility—within reasonable limits—to set their own standards, meet their needs, and adapt to their cost of living and insurance.

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Congressional Quarterly

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