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Socialized medicine comes at a cost.

EARLY in August, both houses of Congress voted by clear majorities (and the Senate by a bipartisan one) to extend for another five years the so-called State Children’s Health Insurance Program (or S-CHIP), which had been scheduled to expire this September. This program had originally granted free health insurance to the children of “poor working families” – defined as those earning up to 200 percent of the poverty level.

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John O’Sullivan

John O’Sullivan is a senior fellow at National Review Institute and a contributing editor of National Review.

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Socialized medicine comes at a cost.

EARLY in August, both houses of Congress voted by clear majorities (and the Senate by a bipartisan one) to extend for another five years the so-called State Children’s Health Insurance Program (or S-CHIP), which had been scheduled to expire this September. This program had originally granted free health insurance to the children of “poor working families” – defined as those earning up to 200 percent of the poverty level.