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Dear Friends,

The liberal leadership in the House and Senate has reached a compromise agreement on the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and is set to consider this legislation Tuesday in the House and Wednesday in the Senate.

Competing bills passed by the House and Senate would expand the program, at great expense to taxpayers, to include more children from higher income families, and the President has threatened to veto both of them. The compromise agreement reached is supposedly modeled on the Senate version, but rank-and-file Members do not yet know what is in the bills that they will vote on during the next couple of days.

The original mission of SCHIP was to help low-income working families who need a little extra help to insure their children. SCHIP was not intended to be a replacement for private health insurance for the working poor, but assistance toward it. It was not a program for adults or the unemployed or families in middle- or high-income groups.

The Senate's version of SCHIP would allow the Administration to grant waivers for states to cover families at 400 percent of the federal poverty level--$82,600 in annual earnings for a family of four. The Bush Administration has recently denied New York's request to expand its SCHIP program to cover children in families up to that income level, but the Senate legislation would allow such a waiver if a more liberal political Administration decided to grant it.

Call your Senators and Representatives today at 202-224-3121 and urge them to oppose SCHIP. Please tell them not to indulge in extravagant government expansions that serve primarily to undermine families.

Sincerely,

Mrs. Beverly LaHaye
Founder and Chairman

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