This bill also fails to provide vision coverage and provides very little mental coverage for our children. Pregnant women may also suffer under this bill because this bill. unlike the previous House version. does not guarantee additional coverage for pregnant women. This bill also denies coverage to parents. collegeaged adults. and legal immigrants who currently have coverage in some states. This is extremely important because reauthorization of SCHIP is crucial to closing the racial and ethnic health disparities in this country. Narrowing health care coverage of our children. as this newly agreed upon version does. clearly falls far short of the goal that we had hoped for in our efforts to decrease health disparities.
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