Date: September 27, 2007
Subject: Government Health Insurance Expansion
Description: The Senate passed a major expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) program authorizing $60 billion over five years, increasing subsidies and prohibiting 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: Motion Agreed to, 67-29
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