Georgia to stop enrolling new PeachCare patients
Georgia is one of at least 14 states facing a federal shortfall for its state Childrens Health Insurance Program. Iowa's Hawk-I plan, which insures more than 30,000 children, expects to exhaust its budget by the end of June.
Congressional Democrats had asked President Bush to add $745 million to the $93 billion emergency war spending proposal he submitted Monday to cover the rest of 2007. Eager to show policy differences with the White House, they now say they may add the money when the bill comes up in the coming weeks.
Bush proposes instead that states with program surpluses should more quickly give up the money to states with deficits, according to Dennis Smith, director of Center for Medicaid and State Operations.
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Impeach the monster now.
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