House endorses children's health insurance
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| Topics: children, insurance, politics
By a vote of 225-204, the House passed a controversial measure, States Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), to expand insurance coverage for kids from poor and working poor families. Because of the expanded protections for people with a mental illness, the American Psychiatric Association issued an immediate press release applauding the vote for bringing coinsurance down from 50 percent to 20 percent (effective 2008), broadening the number of medications available to treat anxiety disorders and other psychiatric conditions, and trimming waste from Medicare Advantage. President Bush has threatened to veto the measure which he has said will drain private insurance companies.
