politico.com - 1/15/2009
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The bill allows states to lift a waiting period for children of legal immigrants to receive health coverage under Medicaid.
yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 1/11/2009
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org —
Jim Henley offers a provocative thought : The
United States government has always engaged in war crimes...
and human rights violations. What’s different this decade is that, under the leadership of a terrible president, our elites have become ...
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The Embrace
kaisernetwork.org - 1/12/2009
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kaisernetwork.org —
[Jan 12, 2009] House lawmakers say they will
vote on Wednesday or Thursday on a stand-alone SCHIP...
expansion that will provide Democrats on Capitol Hill "an early session victory" and give President-elect Barack Obama "a high profile bill" to sign into ...
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Capitol Hill Watch | Lawmakers Set To Vote on SCHIP ...
dailykos.com - 1/14/2009
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dailykos.com —
And not a moment too soon. People are
hurting all over. From the NY Times : WASHINGTON...
— With enthusiastic support from President-elect Barack Obama, the House on Wednesday passed a bill to expand the Children’s Health Insurance ...
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SCHIP Passes The House
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Harry Moroz: Immigration, Cigarettes, or Children's Health?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... with children's health.
Indeed, yesterday's House vote on expansion of SCHIP, the health insurance program for low-income children whose families earn too much to qualify for Medicaid, has been portrayed as everything but an effort to reduce the ranks of the youthfully uninsured. Indeed, we seem to have forgotten that the ability to take a child to the doctor for regular check-ups and immunizations is fundamental to a middle-class standard of living.
Politico, along with The New York Times, pondered the implications of a ...
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