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2 Dec 2014 2:39 pm
GeorgeWashington » 02 Dec 2014 12:46 pm » wrote:
Big Tobacco lost its clout when Al Gore found religion..

How will the SCHIP program be funded when there are no more smokers?

On February 4, 2009, the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 was signed into law, which raised the federal tax rate for cigarettes on April 1, 2009 from $0.39 per pack to $1.01 per pack. [8][9] The purpose of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) is to provide aid for impoverished children. SCHIP expanded its coverage of liability (in 2009) to include families with up to three times the federal poverty level as well as children from high-income families in New York and New Jersey. SCHIP is proposed to also cover dental benefits and treatment of mental illnesses where it previously did not exist. In addition to providing these services for U.S. citizens, SCHIP is also expanded to cover immigrant children and immigrant pregnant women.[10]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigarette_taxes_in_the_United_States
you got me there, how will it be funded? usually no federal program ever goes away so I suspect it will find a way.
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