SCHIP Charade

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Author(s) Investor's Business Daily editorial board
Source Investor's Business Daily
Date September 26, 2007
URL http://www.investors.com/editorial/editorialcontent.asp?secid=1501&status=article&id=275698791178464
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Quotes-start.png "Today, some 6.6 million kids are covered under SCHIP, at a cost of about $25 billion over five years. The new bill raises that to 9 million kids covered, at a cost of $60 billion. It pays for it with a 61-cent hike in the tobacco tax. Sounds good, except that tax will hit the poor hardest. And those it helps are not poor. Under the new bill, families earning $83,000 a year could be eligible." Quotes-end.png


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This item argues against the position Program should be expanded on the topic State Children's Health Insurance Program.