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Article: CHIP Discriminates.(Children's Health Insurance Program)(Brief Article)
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- The Nation
- Article date:
- October 25, 1999
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Since Clinton's election in 1992, the number of children without health insurance has jumped by 2.7 million because of falling Medicaid rolls. With only a small fraction of 3-4 million eligible children enrolled in CHIP (the Children's Health Insurance Program designed by the Clinton Administration for kids of the working poor), one enterprising community group in Idaho decided to figure out for itself what was going on. Emulating fair housing tests, the Idaho Citizen's Action Network (ICAN) sent twenty-five families of different races to apply for CHIP and came up with findings that were, in the words of a spokesperson for the Department of Health and Welfare, ...
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