Public Health Moment

Last week, President Bush vetoed a $35 billion expansion of the 10-year-old State Children's Health Insurance Program, or S-CHIP.

S-CHIP was created to provide health insurance for families of low-income children who didn’t qualify for Medicaid and couldn’t afford private insurance. Lynn Blewett, a health policy professor at the University of Minnesota, says the current debate centers on how much to expand the program.

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