Dear AAPS Action Team,
 
Please contact your Senator�s office with the message to vote against the reauthorization or expansion of S-CHIP. We are expecting a vote in the Senate on Wednesday the 21st. in the afternoon. Please call first thing Wednesday morning.

Find your Senator here:
www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

S-CHIP was created in 1997 as a misguided attempt to address lack of health insurance coverage of children. It needs to be opposed on many grounds. It is a further attempt to nationalize medicine and to destroy the private insurance market as more and more children are added to the program. While we don�t know what the final wording will be in the Senate bill, it may define �child� as someone up to 30 years of age, and set income eligibility requirements such that families with incomes of $80,000 per year or even more could qualify. Additionally, the House bill has provisions intended to destroy physician-owned hospitals or surgi-centers.

Note that Hawaii recently pulled the plug on its �universal child health-care� program because 85% of enrollees previously had private insurance.
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