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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Creative Commons photo by Cosmic Smudge via Flickr)
WASHINGTON — How effectively will the U.S. House health care bill cover children? Turns out, it depends on where they live.
The $894 billion health reform bill working its way toward a House vote this week would repeal the Children’s Health Insurance Program, shifting some low-income kids into Medicaid and others into private plans that would both cost more and guarantee fewer benefits. Which program the youngsters tumble into hinges, not on need, but on the state where they live — a design some advocates call “the lottery of geography.”
Read more at The Iowa Independent’s sister site, The Washington Independent.
