Health-Care Spending: SENATE BUDGET PANEL WOULD LET STATES KEEP SCHIP FUNDS
Senate leaders want to put their stamp on Medicare and Medicaid spending.
In his chairman’s draft of the fiscal year 2004 budget resolution, which passed the Senate Budget Committee virtually unchanged on a party-line vote March 13, Chair Don Nickles (R-OK) essentially earmarks several significant pots of money in reserve funds. The funds would be released to a given authorizing committee to develop or revise a federal program only if Nickles agrees that the program meets goals he outlines.
Several funds involve health-care initiatives. Notably, Nickles goes along with a bipartisan proposal introduced in the Senate last year...
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