October 26, 2007 – By a vote of 265-142, the U.S. House passed modified legislation yesterday expanding the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) by $35 billion over the next five years. The program currently provides 6.6 million children with health insurance and additional funding would provide an additional four million children with health care.
The new SCHIP legislation contains only minor changes from the version President Bush vetoed earlier this month. With 9 million children in this country currently without health care, polls have found between 75 to 80 percent of the country support the vetoed bill.
