The bill that President Bush vetoed would have expanded the State Children's Health Insurance program by $35 billion. Above, Christina Brownlee got a checkup in Miami yesterday.
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Bush vetoes children's health insurance bill
Democrats push for override to expand coverage
The bill that President Bush vetoed would have expanded the State Children's Health Insurance program by $35 billion. Above, Christina Brownlee got a checkup in Miami yesterday.
(JOE RAEDLE/GETTY IMAGES)
WASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday vetoed a bill to add $35 billion to a program providing health insurance coverage to children from lower-income families, portraying the State Children's Health Insurance Program as a costly entitlement program that has increasingly come to benefit middle-class families. (Full article: 956 words)
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