It is my understanding that this bill will give heathcare to illegal immigrant children, raise the age of children to 25 and as long as you make under 82,000 a year you will be eligable? Is this true? I thought they are trying to help the poor?
Senate passes child healthcare bill
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- The U.S. Senate has passed a bipartisan bill providing health insurance for millions of children in low-income families.
The bill would increase spending on the popular Children's Health Insurance Program by $35 billion over the next five years.
The vote to pass it Thursday was 68-31 and the majority was more than enough to overcome the veto threatened by President George W Bush, who has criticized the bill for going "too far in federalizing health care."
If Bush vetoes the bill, the program will likely become a hot issue in 2008 campaigns for Congress and the White House, the New York Times said Friday.
Under the Senate plan, smokers would foot the bill for covering 3 million children more than the 6 million already covered.
The federal cigarette tax would jump from 39 cents to $1 a pack and the tax would reach $10 for luxury cigars with a wholesale price of $19 or more a piece, the Los Angeles Times said.
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Calling an illegal alien an "undocumented immigrant" is like calling a drug dealer an "unlicensed pharmacist" ....
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