This is a blog for the Mental Health Policy Class at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work.

January 25, 2008

Veto Stands on Measure to Expand Health Plan

Democrats cited the nation’s economic problems as a reason to expand a popular health insurance program for children on Wednesday, but their effort failed as the House sustained President Bush’s veto of a bill to provide coverage to nearly four million uninsured children.
The vote for the bill was 260 to 152. Supporters were 15 votes short of the two-thirds majority needed to pass the measure over the president’s objections.

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