[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 163 (Thursday, October 25, 2007)]
[House]
[Page H12024]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 SCHIP

  (Mrs. BLACKBURN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. BLACKBURN. Mr. Speaker, it seems like we have a fact and fiction 
problem that is taking place right here in the body of the House. It is 
about SCHIP 2.0 that is coming before us today. Well, here are the 
facts. SCHIP 2.0 will not prevent illegal immigrants from receiving 
children's health care benefits. It will not prevent adults from 
receiving children's health care funding, and it will not prevent the 
government from crowding out 2 million people from the private health 
care market.
  The bill actually covers 400,000 fewer children than SCHIP 1, and it 
spends 500 million, yes, a half billion dollars more and still leaves 
out 800,000 eligible children. Yet under SCHIP 2, adults will 
constitute 10 percent of all SCHIP enrollees in fiscal year 2012 when 
the program has a major funding problem. Under SCHIP 2.0, 2 million 
people would lose their health care coverage, according to the 
Congressional Budget Office.
  Let's get straight on the facts. Let's vote against SCHIP 2.0 and 
make certain we put the children of the working poor first.

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