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President Bush's plan to veto a children's health insurance bill could leave about 200,000 California children uninsured and disrupt Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's goal of providing universal coverage, state officials said.
Bush has threatened to veto a pending Senate bill that would add $35 billion over the next five years to the State Children's Health Insurance Program, which provides coverage for children of the working poor. In California, the program is called Healthy Families.
Bush's plan would "deprive us of a lot of federal money we are counting on to expand coverage in California," Lesley Cummings, executive director of the state's Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board said.
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