Twenty-one states will run out of money for children’s health insurance in the coming year, ... SCHIP vetoed by Bush

Federal Study Offers Dire Outlook on Child Insurance | By ROBERT PEAR | Published: October 31, 2007

WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 — Twenty-one states will run out of money for children’s health insurance in the coming year, and at least nine of those states will exhaust their allotments in March if Congress simply continues spending at current levels, a new federal study says.

The findings added urgency to bipartisan talks on Capitol Hill intended to overcome an impasse over expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program.
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Their goal is to revise a bill, vetoed by President Bush, to pick up Republican support in the House and gain enough votes to override another veto threatened by the president.
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The Senate passed the original child health bill last month, 67 to 29, with 18 Republicans voting for it. Two of those Republicans, Senators Charles E. Grassley of Iowa and Orrin G. Hatch of Utah, helped write the bill and have been negotiating with House members of both parties to round up Republican support for a revised version of the bill. ...