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Article: Context or composition: what explains variation in SCHIP disenrollment?(Health Insurance: State Children's Health Insurance Program)
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- Health Services Research
- Article date:
- August 1, 2004
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Many studies show that medically uninsured children are less likely to have a regular source of care or to have coordinated, comprehensive preventive health services (Eisert and Gabow 2002; McCormick et al. 2000; Newacheck et al. 1998; Szilagyi et al. 2000). It was thus of great concern that, in the mid-1990s, an estimated 11 million children were uninsured--many of them from poor and near-poor families (Szilagyi et al. 2000). To extend health coverage to children in low income families not covered by Medicaid or private health insurance, the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) was enacted in 1997 (Ross and Hill 2003). By the close of FFY2001, more than four ...