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Covering Uninsured Kids: Missed Opportunities for Moving Forward

Press Release: State Children’s Health Insurance Program Expansion Falls to President’s Veto

President Bush’s veto puts at risk the health coverage of the 145,000 Ohio children who live in families with incomes less than 200% of the federal poverty level and are currently covered by SCHIP. The action also limits Ohio’s ability to expand SCHIP to cover an estimated 35,000 uninsured children living between 200%-300% of the federal poverty level.

Press Release: Bush Administration Denies Health Care to 35,000 Ohio Children

When Congress returns to Washington in January, we need its members to fix this problem by passing a moratorium on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services guidelines and overriding the President's second veto of the State Children's Health Insurance Plan (SCHIP)

Web: Summary of the Medicare, Medicaid and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007

File: National Association of State Medicaid Directors Summary

Press Release: Congress Extends SCHIP Program

There's some good news in the bill. It does not contain harmful SCHIP policy changes that opponents of the program wanted. The citizenship documentation requirement in Medicaid was kept out of SCHIP, and the bill also temporarily blocks bad Medicaid regulations to deny rehabilitative and school-based services for low-income people who depend on them.

File: Senate Bill

File: Congressional Budget Office Estimates

Press Release: CCF Fact Sheet: $83,000 SCHIP Family Doesn’t Exist

The truth about who’s eligible for State Children’s Health Insurance Program coverage has become blurred in the debate to reauthorize SCHIP, with the mythical $83,000 SCHIP family making headlines. The misleading contention that SCHIP covers children at this income level leaves the false impression that SCHIP is a program that no longer focuses on lower income children or that SCHIP reauthorization would turn it into such a program.

File: "$83,000 SCHIP Family Doesn't Exist"

File: SCHIP Override Counterpoint Responses

File: NPR-KFF-Harvard SCHIP Poll

File: 2007 SCHIP Compromise Vote

File: Draft Statement on SCHIP Reauthorization

File: SCHIP Substitute

Press Release: Voices for Ohio’s Children Thanks Legislators and Advocates; Regrets Failure to Override SCHIP Veto

Today, despite the overwhelming support of Ohio’s legislative leaders and the American people, the U.S. House of Representatives failed to override President Bush’s veto of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). Thirteen of Ohio’s U.S. House of Representatives members, Republicans and Democrats, voted for the override, while four—Representatives Boehner, Chabot, Jordan and Schmidt—did not.

File: Letter to Congress - from the USSGs

Additional information on the SCHIP debate:

1. CCF's new fact sheet "$83,000 SCHIP Family Doesn't Exist"
2. CBPP's new paper responding to the Administration's "poor children first" claims: POOR CHILDREN FIRST — OR LAST? Watch What the Administration is Doing, Not What It Is Saying
3. Joint CBPP/Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids paper: Expanding Children's Health Insurance and Raising Federal Tobacco Taxes Helps Low-Income Families
4. A series of fact sheets by Families USA to CHIP-ing away at the common CHIP myths:
• the myth of "government takeover"
• the myth of eligibility
• the myth of irresponsible budgeting
• the myth of undocumented immigrants

Press Release: Voices for Ohio’s Children Says Thank You

Voices for Ohio’s Children launches newspaper advertisements across Ohio to say thank-you to bipartisan leaders who support the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). The advertisements feature Emily Demko, a three year-old from Albany, Ohio, who would benefit from SCHIP’s reauthorization.

Press Release: Voices for Ohio’s Children Condemns SCHIP Veto

Voices for Ohio’s Children condemned President Bush’s veto of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). Both Senator Sherrod Brown and twelve of Ohio’s U.S. House of Representatives members, Republicans and Democrats, supported the bill in Congress.

Press Release: Voices for Ohio’s Children Applauds House Passage of SCHIP Reauthorization

“Expanding coverage to children through Medicaid and SCHIP has been the most successful and efficient health care reform in years,” said Voices for Ohio’s Children Executive Director Amy Swanson. “We’re pleased that seventy percent of Ohio’s Congressional members understand that SCHIP helps Ohio’s children grow up healthy and strong and become productive citizens.”

Web: Roll Call Vote - House

Web: Summary of SCHIP Agreement

Web: SCHIP Compromise Section-by-Section Summary

Web: Projected FY2008 Allotments Under Compromise Proposal, Compared to FY2007 Projected Federal SCHIP Spending and Projected Allotments Under Senate-Passed H.R. 976

Web: CHIP FY2008 Funding Under Bipartisan Bill

Press Release: Congress Debates SCHIP Reauthorization

Both the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate voted to approve legislation reauthorizing the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and guarantee that millions more of America’s children will have access to health care coverage.

Web: Summary of Child Health Expansions in Amended Substitute House Bill 119

File: Center for Children & Families House SCHIP Bill Summary

File: Center for Children & Families Senate SCHIP Bill Summary

File: [PDF]Summary of Senate and House CHIP Reauthorization & Medicare Improvement Plans

File: [PDF]Protecting America's Futures State by State SCHIP Report

Web: Senator Brown and Governor Strickland Support SCHIP

File: Orlando Sentinel Article

File: SCHIP News Clips

File: SCHIP General Talking Points

File: Cool Responses to Hot Questions

Web: New Charges about How House Children's Health Bill Affects Undocumented Immigrants are False

Web: Private Plans Continue to Use Misleading Arguments to Oppose Reforms of Medicare Overpayments

Web: House Health Legislation Would Curb Medicare Overpayments to Private Plans, While Aiding Medicare Beneficiaries Overall

Web: The Week's Top Five Myths Regarding Congressional Efforts to Strengthen Children's Health Coverage

File: Cincinnati Coverage

File: Dayton Coverage

Press Release: Briefing with National and State Leaders on SCHIP Reauthorization

Ohio House Congressional staff members, advocates and the media participated in a statewide conference call on Wednesday, July 25th

File: AARP Statement for Record

File: Press Release by Cindy Mann

File: Tobacco Taxes and Medicare Offsets [PDF]

File: "Curbing Medicare Overpayments..." [PDF]

File: Whose Advantage? Billions in Windfall Payments Go to Private Medicare Plans

Press Release: Governor Strickland Urges Federal Legislators to Support SCHIP Reauthorization

Governor Sends Letter to Ohio Congressional Delegation Urging Support of SCHIP Legislation.