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The Colorado Consumer Health Initiative is hiring an Outreach Coordinator
Friday, July 20th, 2007Outreach and Education Coordinator
The Colorado Consumer Health Initiative (CCHI) is a member-based nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to ensuring barrier-free access to quality, affordable healthcare for all Coloradans. CCHI brings together a unified statewide voice for healthcare reform, engaging, educating, and empowering consumers and advocacy organizations to identify solutions that overcome barriers to healthcare. CCHI addresses the healthcare crisis through policy, legislation, outreach, education, and organizing with consumers and groups throughout
Position Description
The Outreach and Education Coordinator is part of an integrated team in a small, dynamic nonprofit agency based in
Bush Warns of veto on kids health bill
Thursday, July 19th, 2007
The Senate proposal to renew SCHIP would increase funds for children’s health insurance by raising cigarette taxes.
Article Last Updated: 07/18/2007 09:58:07 PM MDT
Landover, Md. - President Bush on Wednesday reiterated his threat to veto Senate legislation that would substantially increase funds for children’s health insurance by levying a 61-cent-a-pack increase in the federal excise tax on cigarettes.
The tax increase would be used to subsidize health insurance for children and some adults with incomes too high to qualify for Medicaid but not high enough to afford insurance on their own.
The renewal of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, or SCHIP, is considered by many to be the most important health legislation that Congress will take up this year.
"Members of Congress have decided, however, to expand the program to include, in some cases, up to families earning $80,000 a year - which would cause people to drop their private insurance in order to be involved with a government insurance plan," Bush said in a speech in suburban Maryland.
"If Congress continues to insist upon expanding health care through the SCHIP program - which, by the way, would entail a huge tax increase for the American people - I’ll veto the bill," he said. (more…)