The News Review:
- Democrats near win on child health bill
- Nixon makes schools and health care priorities
- Behind the Family Planning Flap
Democrats near win on child health bill
The Associated Press
The Senate was expected to vote Thursday on legislation that would spend $31. The additional money would help about 4 million uninsured children get coverage and draw 2. 4 million more kids into the program who otherwise could get private coverage.
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Nixon makes schools and health care priorities
Kansas City Star M
Jay Nixon talked about education child care and health insurance. 1_01-29-2009_II17JRQK.
Behind the Family Planning Flap
TIME
So what happens now? Have low-income women been thrown under the bus? The organizations that pushed for this provision didn’t originally ask for it to be included in the stimulus package. They expect the Administration to push for its adoption soon either in another piece of legislation or as a stand-alone bill. The provision has been introduced in the last three Congresses as the “Prevent Prematurity and Improve Child Health Act” sponsored by Democratic Senators Blanche Lincoln of Nebraska and Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico and Republicans Richard Lugar of Indiana and lympia Snowe of Maine. Senate aides anticipate the bill will be reintroduced this year. In the meantime states can continue to apply for waivers which are likely to be approved more quickly in the bama Administration than they were under George W. Currently 26 states — including 8 with Republican governors — have obtained waivers to provide primary care to low-income women before they become pregnant.
