The bill does nothing. for example. to address the cliff in the funding of SCHIP. so a future Congress will still face a choice of throwing off the SCHIP rolls 6.5 million kids or raising taxes by about $40 billion. It still relies on a declining revenue source. tobacco taxes. to fund a growing program which is likely to exacerbate the funding cliff issue. In short. the legislation remains fiscally irresponsible. Further. despite some window dressing on this. it appears illegal immigrants will be able to use fraudulent Social Security numbers and still be able to get SCHIP and Medicaid benefits. It still allows States to enroll higher income children at least through 2010 and continues to allow States to use a system of socalled income disregards to set just about any income limit they please. I support SCHIP.
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