It is also noteworthy that lowerincome Americans pay a higher percentage of cigarette taxes. but it is middleincome Americans that will receive most of the expanded SCHIP benefits under this bill. I am also concerned over provisions included in the bill that repeal the requirement that individuals must prove citizenship in order to enroll in Medicaid and SCHIP. This opens the program to fraud and the enrollment of illegal immigrants. In 2006. the Inspector General. IG. of the Department of Health and Human Services found that 46 States allowed anyone seeking Medicaid or SCHIP to simply state they were citizens.
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