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SCHIP: The Bush Admin.'s Effort to Preserve Childrens' Private Health Insurance - Heritage Found. E-mail to friends
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Nina Owcharenko, The Heritage Foundation, May 20, 2008

In August of 2007, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid released a directive on the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). The directive keeps the program focused on its core population—low-income uninsured children—and pays particular attention to the impact that SCHIP expansions have on existing private coverage.

The SCHIP statute describes the purpose of the program as assisting uninsured low-income children. Although there is some disagreement over its interpretation, the statute defines "low-income" children as those children whose family income is at or below 200 percent of the poverty line. In an effort to keep the program focused on uninsured children, the statute also includes provisions to ensure that the program does not substitute for coverage under a group health plan and to inform parents, through outreach efforts, of the possible availability of private coverage.


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