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To: El Oviedo; Howlin; Peach

How would we look up to see if this could have been something Kerry voted for?


52 posted on 10/18/2004 6:02:54 AM PDT by RedBloodedAmerican
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To: RedBloodedAmerican; deport

We call in the expert in finding stuff like this.


53 posted on 10/18/2004 10:42:20 AM PDT by Howlin (Bush has claimed two things which Democrats believe they own by right: the presidency & the future)
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To: RedBloodedAmerican

This is the name of the bill it was included in:

U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 103rd Congress - 1st Session: On the Conference Report, Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 Vote #247 6 Aug 1993.


In 1993, four years before it enacted the five-year, $24 billion Title XXI block grant, otherwise known as the State Children's Health Insurance Program, Congress made a much smaller but vitally important investment in the health of America's kids: the Vaccines for Children (VFC) program. Included in the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act and funded initially at $500,000, VFC's charge is to assure that poor and uninsured youngsters have access to free immunizations to protect against the array of vaccine-preventable diseases, from measles and mumps to polio to hepatitis B.

Under the program, which was implemented in October 1994 as part of President Clinton's Childhood Immunization Initiative, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) buys vaccines at a discount and distributes them to states, which in turn distribute them at no charge to private physicians' offices and public health clinics. To be eligible, children must be on Medicaid, be uninsured or be an American Indian/Alaska Native. (The underinsured, meaning that their parents' private insurance doesn't cover vaccinations, also qualify, but they must get their shots at federally qualified health centers or rural health clinics.) With 30,500 private provider sites and 10,700 public clinics now enrolled, VFC has helped keep children in a "medical home," by reducing physician referrals to public clinics.


http://www.ncsl.org/programs/health/vaccines.htm


55 posted on 10/18/2004 10:52:58 AM PDT by Howlin (Bush has claimed two things which Democrats believe they own by right: the presidency & the future)
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