Date: August 1, 2007
Subject: Health Insurance and Medicare Expansion
Description: The House passed a major expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), authorizing $86 billion over five years and increasing subsidies. The measure prohibited the Department of Health and Human Services from requiring that poor children be covered before other groups. The costs of the expansion were to be paid from increased tobacco taxes.
Result: Bill Passed, 225-204
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