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Schip for Everyone

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Author(s) The Wall Street Journal editorial board
Source The Wall Street Journal
Date September 28, 2007
URL http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119094410979842201.html
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"Schip is designed as a ratchet that jacks up the government's share of health-care spending, and every time it grows it steals customers from private insurance. All the more so because states have been raising eligibility levels above the 200% of the federal poverty line that Schip was intended to serve. The Democratic bill raises the effective national level to 300%, and it overrules a sensible Bush Administration directive that states enroll low-income families before subsidizing the middle class."


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