May 8, 2007 11:32AM 

# The Latest from the Children’s Defense Fund 

By [Michael F. Cannon](https://www.cato.org/people/michael-f-cannon) 

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[Or maybe a small child](http://www.childrensdefense.org/site/PageServer?pagename=healthy_child_mothersday), judging by CDF’s fairly shameless pro-SCHIP campaign.

Turns out there is a solid case to be made that expanding [SCHIP and Medicaid](https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=4049) would leave us with *more* [dead kids](https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=8131). Of course, the ideological left won’t engage that debate.

They’d rather just accuse their opponents of killing kittens.

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