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Article: All Healthy Children Act Introduced in Senate by Sen. Sanders
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- June 21, 2007
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WASHINGTON, June 21 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, has introduced the All Healthy Children Act of 2007 (S. 1564), legislation that would "amend the Social Security Act to provide health insurance coverage for children and pregnant and post-partum women throughout the U.S. by combining the children and pregnant women health coverage under Medicaid and SCHIP into a new All Healthy Children Program."
The bill, introduced on June 7, was referred to the Senate Finance Committee.
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A copy of the full-text of the legislation follows:All ...