March 7, 2009 - 09:52 am
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House votes for 1-year delay to children's health program for lower middle class families

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House Democrats have not abandoned their goal to have all kids covered by health insurance plans by 2010, but they still aren't going to make it.

On Friday, they passed a measure that will delay expansion of health care programs for children to encompass families whose income is between 2.5 and 3 times the federal poverty level. For a family of four that is $63,600 a year. The vote was 68-28.

The programs is just for the kids, not their parents. The delay is until Jan. 1, 2010, apparently a small concession to the $7.7 billion budget shortfall that lawmakers are facing.

The bill also authorizes the state Department of Social and Health Services to design another health program for the kids of parents above that 3-times-poverty threshold, and that program doesn't have to be as generous in benefits as the ones below that threshold.

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