The federal government has spent $25 billion on the children's health program in the last five years.

He knew how serious our spending problems were in major health programs.

Members of both agree that the health programs can be cut.

"Here we are doing health programs around the world," he said.

"So they don't have the same kind of health program in operation here?"

In 2009, 2,143,354 patients received treatment under the health programs mentioned.

But so far only 1.3 million children have been enrolled in the new health program, the Administration says.

The House voted to spend $16 billion on a new health program for children in the next five years.

All these require strong public health programs to bring them under control, the panel said.

Tuberculosis control has been a part of China's public health program since the 1950s.