Dueling proposals for kids' health insurance; lawmakers seeking plan everyone can live with

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Senate and House conferees have been negotiating the differences in health insurance plans for children in the US. Critics believe the House insurance plan is structured too loosely and is underfunded at $16 bil over a period of five years. An extra $8 bil is provided for in the Senate proposal, with funding from cigarette taxes, which is favored by the Children's Defense Fund and other children's advocates.

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House GOP plan: buy insurance, get tax break

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Rep Bill Archer and other Republican legislators are developing bills that would provide tax breaks for individuals purchasing health insurance. Archer is expected to announce a bill that provides tax deductions for employees purchasing individual health insurance policies, making health insurance fully deductible for self-employed workers and lowering the deductibility threshold for medical expenses.

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States with most need least able to fund insurance

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A RAND report has found that those states with the highest amount of uninsured individuals cannot pay for them. Federal aid is necessary to help these states to pay for the uninsured. The state tax increases in these states would be prohibitive but federal financial aid would be distributed by family income. State funds would need to supplement these federal funds.

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