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July 25, 2007
House Democrats Unveil SCHIP Legislation That Would Increase Cigarette Tax, Reduce Payments to Medicare Advantage Plans
House Democrats on Tuesday introduced legislation that would reduce payments to Medicare Advantage plans and increase the federal cigarette tax by 45 cents per pack to fund SCHIP and make revisions to Medicare, the AP/Houston Chronicle reports (Freking, AP/Houston Chronicle, 7/24). The legislation, called the Children's Health and Medicare Protection Act, would reauthorize SCHIP and increase funding for the program by $50 billion over five years. The expansion would allow an additional five million to six million children to enroll in the program, according to House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair John Dingell (D-Mich.) (Johnson [1], CongressDaily, 7/25).
In addition, the legislation would:
http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/health2008dr.cfm?DR_ID=46472
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