President George W. Bush spent his first year focused on education, culminating with the passage of the No Child Left Behind bill. Barack Obama appears poised to do the same with health care.
Obama hasn’t laid out his plans, but one pillar has always been to expand the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). This $8 billion program provides money to states that offer health care coverage for kids whose families are uninsured but earn too much to qualify for Medicaid. It’s on the fast track.
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