Federal File: Healthy Pork?; Status Quo

What supporters describe as a bold new federal initiative to provide health insurance to low-income children is just a slice of razorback pork, in the eyes of the federal officials who are going to have to provide the money for the program.

Senator Dale Bumpers, Democrat of Arkansas, announced recently that the Department of Housing and Urban Development had given the University of Arkansas a $lmillion grant to provide health services to uninsured children in two...