US Congress fails to override Bush veto on children's health insurance  

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Tanne, Janice Hopkins

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: British Medical Journal (keterangan: ada di Proquest) vol. 335 no. 7625 (Oct. 2007), page 846.

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Perpustakaan FK Nomor Panggil: B16.K.2007.02 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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The US House of Representatives failed by just 13 votes to override President Bush's veto of a plan to renew and expand the state children's health insurance plan. The plan covers about 6.6 million children in families who earn too much to qualify for help from the Medicaid programme for poor people yet cannot afford to buy health insurance, as well as some pregnant women and some adults in disadvantaged families. Both the House and the Senate had passed a bill increasing spending for the programme by $35bn (£17bn; 25bn) over the next five years to a total of $60bn (BMJ 2007;335:637, 685 doi: 10.1136/bmj.39349.400069.DB doi: 10.1136/bmj.39356.376470.DB). The proposed expansion would have added another four million children to coverage. The president defended the veto, saying that the bill would prompt families to drop private health insurance and that it was a step towards government run, socialised medicine. It . . .

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