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Texas should do more for children without insurance

By ⋅ June 14, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

(STAR TELEGRAM) - Can we please stop pretending that helping working parents provide health insurance for their children is a ruse for enacting an unwarranted middle-class entitlement?
The arguments against increasing access to Texas’ Children’s Health Insurance Program have included claims that it would entice parents away from private insurance providers and get away from the [...]

Texas lawmakers mull ’safety net’ bills for agencies, children’s insurance

By ⋅ June 3, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

(DALLAS NEWS) - The Legislature enters the final day of its session today needing to take extraordinary steps to salvage several state agencies and avoid a special session.
House members adjourned just after midnight without approving a measure to keep agencies as big as the Department of Insurance and Department of Transportation operating. Also lost [...]

State revamps kids’ insurance

By ⋅ May 11, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

(NEWS JOURNAL ONLINE) - With more than 5,000 local children dropping out of the state’s health insurance program over the past six years, officials say new legislation will help more children get the care they need.Legislators and child advocates worked the past several years to make changes to KidCare, the subsidized state and federal program [...]

Tobacco taxes soaring to cover children’s health insurance costs

By ⋅ March 22, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

(Star-Telegram) - Elizabeth Banks may soon trade her little cigars for nicotine patches.
The 54-year-old longtime smoker said new federal taxes added to tobacco products to fund more health insurance for low-income children are too much for her to handle.
“It’s a good cause and all, but it’s not a good time with the economy,” said Banks, [...]

25,000 Children at Risk in Car Collisons

By ⋅ February 18, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

New AA research urges action by parents and grandparents on two thirds of child car seats not fitted correctly.
Basingstoke, Hampshire (PRWEB) February 17, 2009 — Two thirds of child car seats are not fitted correctly* and over 83% of drivers are not aware of UK car seat legislation reveals research by the AA** and Britax.
The [...]

Child insurance program only proves costly

By ⋅ February 17, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

(cjonline.com) - The great American journalist H.L. Mencken tried to tell us, way back in 1920: “There is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.”
That’s a pretty good characterization of the $115 billion expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, commonly known as SCHIP, that President Obama signed [...]

Millions of kids provided with health insurance

By ⋅ February 6, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

(msnbc) - Starting Wednesday, millions of American children can have the health care they need, thanks a the bill signed into law by President Barack Obama. This fulfills one of the promises he made on the campaign trail.
It’s called the S-CHIP program, designed to provide health insurance to low-income families. Even better [...]

Advocates say Texas could add 100,000 youths to Children’s Health Insurance Program

By ⋅ February 5, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

(dallasnews.com) - Texas child advocates said Wednesday that the state could add 100,000 youngsters to the rolls of the Children’s Health Insurance Program without a huge budget hit, now that the popular federal program has been renewed.
The Texas Finish Line Campaign, a coalition of three advocacy groups, urged the Legislature to expand [...]

New push for child insurance

By ⋅ January 28, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

(The Philidelphia Inquirer) - Anxious but hopeful, those who work with the poor and the working poor are awaiting the Obama administration’s first moves on behalf of the disenfranchised.
The State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) is among the new president’s top priorities. That’s welcome news, advocates say, as more people lose [...]

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