States Cut Health Insurance for 145,000 Kids

[donsu]

america does not like children


http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=5761395

Some 145,000 poor children were dropped from a U.S. federal-state health insurance plan in the second half of 2003, with more than half the cuts made by Texas, a health-care research foundation said on Friday.

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Along with Texas, two other states -- Maryland and New York -- accounted for most of the cuts in the program last year. The two eastern states each cut 23,000 low-income children, the report said.

A total of 11 states sliced enrollment, with "noteworthy" cuts made in Florida, Colorado and South Carolina, the report said.

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The program cost the federal government $3.7 billion and the states $1.6 billion in fiscal 2002, the most recent data available, according to Kaiser Commission spokesman Rakesh Singh.

"Typically, kids are fairly cheap to provide health insurance for," he said.
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makes you want to throw up in disgust

[proud patriot]

1. Lord have Mercy This pisses me off to no end

why must children always suffer at the hand of the greedy :-(

[Wapsie B]

2. Plus there's a bonus in the fact

that kids don't vote.

[cthrumatrix]

3. what's good for big business...not good for people...the repug way

this is nothing new

[redqueen]

4. In Texas they increased the premiums

Used to be $15/year. Now $15/month.

The GOP hates poor children.

[Kanary]

5. here's that number again.... 1-800-839-5276

Give the congresscritters of your choice your first vent, then come here to report it, and you'll feel better.

Kanary

[Killarney]

6. enjoy your tax cut, billionaires

sleep well