Bush Administration adopts new standards to make it more difficult to extend health care to children

[Karmadillo]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/21/washington/21health.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

By ROBERT PEAR
Published: August 21, 2007

The Bush administration, continuing its fight to stop states from expanding the popular Children’s Health Insurance Program, has adopted new standards that would make it much more difficult for New York, California and others to extend coverage to children in middle-income families.

Administration officials outlined the new standards in a letter sent to state health officials on Friday evening, in the middle of a monthlong Congressional recess. In interviews, they said the changes were intended to return the Children’s Health Insurance Program to its original focus on low-income children and to make sure the program did not become a substitute for private health coverage.

After learning of the new policy, some state officials said yesterday that it could cripple their efforts to cover more children and would impose standards that could not be met.

“We are horrified at the new federal policy,” said Ann Clemency Kohler, deputy commissioner of human services in New Jersey. “It will cause havoc with our program and could jeopardize coverage for thousands of children.”

Stan Rosenstein, the Medicaid director in California, said the new policy was “highly restrictive, much more restrictive than what we want to do.”

more...

[Why Syzygy]

1. oh horrors

an alternative to private health insurance. The devil itself. Can't have any cash diverted from the finaciers. Corruption angers me.

[Karmadillo]

5. Let children invest in the market and pay for their own health care. No point raising them to be

leeches.

[bobthedrummer]

2. "'Neoconservatism' and how Wisconsinites worked alliances"

this is the result of many of the Tommy Thompson gang's "policies and programs" that originated in Wisconsin and were adopted as both federal and international models as this cross-post (from an informative parent thread) details

(posted 8-15-2007)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=186x21683#21874

[pansypoo53219]

3. fell the

COMPASSION!
and that is some good culture of life!

[bobthedrummer]

4. .

[bobthedrummer]

6. kick

[helderheid]

7. 2nd rec

[Why Syzygy]

8. kick