There Are Better Ways to Insure Kids

The Wall Street Journal, October 18, 2007 

All eyes are on Congress. Democratic leaders are planning a vote today to override President Bush's veto of their expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program. They will need votes from two-thirds of the members in each chamber, which means a substantial number of Republicans must go along...

Time and Opportunity

Negotiations appear to have broken down over SCHIP. Democratic leaders from the House and Senate and rank-and-file House Republicans have been trying for two weeks to draft a new compromise to expand and reauthorize the State Children's Health Insurance Program...

Freedom, Liberty, and Justice

Oregon voters this week gave us an unusual opportunity to learn in real time what voters think about a legislative proposal being considered in Congress. When asked about raising state cigarette taxes to add more children to publicly-funded health coverage...

Assessing Proposals for Health Reform

Grace-Marie Turner gave the keynote address at the Utah Health Insurance Association's Education Conference on November 8, 2007. Click here to view her presentation, "Assessing Proposals for Health Reform."

California Dreaming

It is instructive to watch the wrestling match in California over comprehensive health reform which could preview the national debate likely to take place in 2009. The legislature is six weeks into a special session on health, after failing to...

Moving On

After the House voted on Thursday to uphold President Bush's veto of the SCHIP bill, members caucused almost immediately to decide what to do next. Will the program continue to be a political hot potato, with several short-term extensions that throw it...

SCHIP's Misplaced Priorities

In "Spending Veto Is Too Little And Too Late" (On The Left, Oct. 5), Eugene Robinson misstates the facts surrounding President Bush's veto of a bill to expand the State Children's Health Insurance Program. Robinson writes that the authorization...

Uncovering Facts

The Congress will vote next week on whether to override President Bush's veto of the bill to reauthorize and expand the State Children's Health Insurance Program. About 15 Republicans are getting tremendous pressure from advertisements and editorials...