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Article: Child Health Plus can help state's uninsured.(Perspective)(Letter to the editor)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- September 23, 2007
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Using faulty logic and incomplete facts, Tarren Bragdon (op-ed, Sept. 4) defends new Bush administration rules that effectively block New York state and every other state from raising eligibility standards for children's health insurance above 250 percent of the federal poverty level.
To limit access to public coverage, Bragdon, like the Bush administration, argues that public coverage will crowd out or substitute for private coverage. New York's experience under its Child Health Plus program and its Child Health Plus expansion plan put this argument to rest.
New York monitors crowd out rates; crowd out is not a problem. Further, the plan to extend ...