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by Daniel C. Vock and Pamela M. Prah, Stateline.org Staff Writers<\/p>\n\n

Reversing course from last year, the Bush administration announced Monday (Feb. 4) that it plans to spend an additional $19.7 billion over five years to see that more of America’s children have health insurance.<\/p>\n\n

But the new budget proposed by the president would impose several new restrictions on the State Children\u2019s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), which currently covers 6 million Americans a year. That could mean headaches for states that have aggressively used the program to provide subsidized health insurance to middle-class families.<\/p>\n\n

President Bush’s $3 trillion fiscal 2009 budget comes at a time when many states face a budget shortfall. Unlike the federal government, states must balance their budgets each year.<\/p>\n\n

Bush plans to ask Congress to limit SCHIP to families of four making less than $53,000 a year. His proposal would grandfather in already-enrolled kids in families making more than that level, but states couldn’t sign up anyone else beyond that level.<\/p>\n\n

Bush’s budget also calls for controversial changes in Medicaid, the state-federal health insurance program for the poor. One would eliminate a requirement that drug companies sell their medicine to Medicaid at the cheapest price on the market.<\/p>\n\n

The budget includes $110 million to help states comply with the 2005 Real ID Act, which will cost an estimated $4 billion to create tougher national standards for driver’s licenses.<\/p>\n\n

Bush’s $59.2 billion proposal for education — nearly equaling the money spent last year — is unlikely to jump-start talks on his stalled signature education initiative, the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.<\/p>\n\n

Read more<\/a> about other these and other elements of Bush’s budget proposal at stateline.org.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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