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"General Welfare of the United States".
Keeping citizens alive seems to fit that definition pretty nicely. The Supreme Court has upheld similar arguments for the last 75 years or so for similar programs.
As DC pointed out, there's no provision in SCHIP to pay for illegals. To the contrary, there's language excluding illegals, and it's being refined further.
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