KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Let's design a children's health plan that President George W. Bush might like.

The State Children's Health Insurance Program serves working families not poor enough to qualify for Medicare. Bush is dead set against legislation that would raise the number of children covered by SCHIP from 6 million to 9 million.

In making a Bush-friendly plan, it's important to ignore his stated reasons for opposing the SCHIP expansion. That would start with his protests ...

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