PeachCare and our two U.S. Senators

As noted in several recent posts, there is an ongoing battle over increasing the budgets of Georgia's PeachCare and similar programs around the country that provide health insurance to poor children. It involves the State Children's Health Insurance Program or SCHIP, PeachCare's parent program.

The AJC notes:

Georgia's two Republican senators — Johnny Isakson and Saxby Chambliss — don't rule out a more modest increase in SCHIP funding that would help expand PeachCare, which already covers 270,000 children. But both strongly oppose increasing any tax to finance an expansion of government. They also want to ensure that the program is refined to bar adults and middle class families from enrolling in the program.