A report from the last week’s issue of CongressDaily reveals that the US Congress got a pleading from several state governors to include funding for Medicaid in a second stimulus package.
It also shares that some state governors met with President Bush and other administration officials Monday morning to ask some help on the second package but the US President seemed to decline supporting the effort.

On the other hand, Congress are being encouraged by governors to place a moratorium on a Bush administration regulation on health insurance. The regulation is seen to make it doubly hard for states to expand the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) eligibility to children in families with incomes greater than 250% of the federal poverty level.

The second stimulus package seeks to provide $6 billion in Medicaid assistance, among other measures. As I see it, this additional Medicaid funding will benefit more people and thus, deserve full support from the government. I hope President Bush tries to be more generous and changes his mind on this matter.