Home >> Research >> Public Benefits>> Health Care Access

More Information

Related Topics

• Your County and the ACA
• Testimony on Texas HHSC LAR
• Choices and Challenges: How Texas County Uninsured Rates Will Drop Under Health Care Reform

Also by Anne Dunkelberg

• What We Know About the Medicaid Expansion
• Presentation: Texas Has a Health Care Spending Problem, Not a Medicaid Problem
• Texans Need Real Solutions to Our Health Care Needs

Also by Scott McCown

• Statement: Budget Coalition's Plan Unworthy of Boldest and Grandest State
• Year in Review: 2011 Annual Report
• Statement: McCown Rates PolitiFact PANTS ON FIRE for UI Column

How the Bipartisan CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2007 Helps Texas and How the McConnell-Lott-Cornyn Alternative Hurts Texas

  

Authors:
Anne Dunkelberg /(512) 320-0222 x 102
Scott McCown /(512) 320-0222 x 109

October 10, 2007

Congressional Budget Office's Estimate of Changes in SCHIP and Medicaid Enrollment of Children >>  
How the Bipartisan CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2007 Helps Texas and How the McConnell-Lott-Cornyn Alternative Hurts Texas >>  

On October 18, Congress will vote on whether to override the President’s veto of the bipartisan Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2007. Anticipating the vote, America is engaged in a major public debate about children’s health insurance. The Texas Congressional Delegation is split. Senator Hutchison and 12 Texas representatives voted for the bipartisan bill. Senator Cornyn and 18 Texas representatives voted against the bipartisan bill. Senator Cornyn is a co-sponsor of an alternative called McConnell-Lott. This paper analyzes how the bipartisan bill would help our state and how the alternative would hurt. Based upon this analysis, CPPP urges our Texas congressional delegation to vote to override the President’s veto.