Reply #116: My point is that this is a REPUBLICAN PROGRAM

[nadinbrzezinski]

SCHIP renewal expected, but funding remains the question
Congress is considering ensuring coverage for all eligible children -- a move that would cost billions.
By DOUG TRAPP, amednews staff. Dec. 11, 2006.

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Washington -- Not only are lawmakers planning next year to reauthorize a state-federal health program for low-income children, some want to bolster it. But legislators have to work out the financing first.

Bipartisan support exists in Congress for reauthorizing the State Children's Health Insurance Program, which is set to expire Sept. 30, the end of fiscal year 2007.

SCHIP was created in 1997 as a way to cover the 10 million uninsured children in America at that time. Today it covers 6 million children. But because of the rapid growth in the uninsured, between 7.5 million and 10 million children remain without coverage, according to various estimates.

http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2006/12/11/gvsb1211.htm

And yes, it was one of the few good ideas they ever had...