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Article: Children's health bill wins more Senate support.(Hatch-Kennedy Child Health Insurance and Lower Deficit Act would provide health insurance to children of working poor)
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- National Underwriter Life & Health-Financial Services Edition
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- April 14, 1997
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The possibility of Senate passage of a bill to provide health insurance for the children of the working poor received a boost last week with the news that six Republican senators have signed on to cosponsor the Hatch-Kennedy Child Health Insurance and Lower Deficit Act.
The bipartisan bill introduced by Sens. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass. on April S would provide health insurance for children through block grants to the states. It would be voluntary on the part of the states which would contribute to the financing of the program (see NU, March 31, page 7).
At a news conference last week announcing the introduction of the bill, ...