Press Releases
Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami
202-226-7616
08/21/2007
Pelosi: 'Once Again, President Is Trying to Throw America's Children Off Health Insurance Rolls'
Washington, D.C. - Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued the following
statement today opposing the new conditions the Bush Administration has imposed
on the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), which will make it
more difficult for states to extend health coverage to children in
middle-income families:
"While Republicans always talk about the importance of
state flexibility and letting states make decisions, their actions are quite
the opposite. Once again, President Bush is trying to throw
"SCHIP has provided millions of children with quality
health insurance, and has earned broad bipartisan support. Yet now the Bush Administration is imposing
restrictions that will cause more children to be uninsured.
"In Congress, we are working to do the opposite - to
expand health insurance for