Congress Defers States' Bid To Retain Child-Health Dollars
State governors saw their best hope for an immediate bailout of the federal health-insurance program for children dashed this month, when a lame-duck Congress failed to take up the issue before closing shop for the year.
With nearly $3 billion in federal funding on the line, the National Governors' Association and other groups had urged Congress to pass a bill during the 2002 legislative session that would change the way federal money is distributed under the State Children's Health Insurance Program, or SCHIP.
Eleventh-hour attempts by some legislators to heed that request failed in the face of objections from key appropriators. Lawmakers instead voted to continue funding the federal government at fiscal 2002 levels into January, leaving the fate of SCHIP and other health-policy issues for the next Congress. Republicans, who in this session controlled only the House, will be in charge of...
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