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Article: The Impact of School Enrollment-Based Health Insurance on the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).
- Article from:
- Journal of School Health
- Article date:
- November 1, 2000
- Author:
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Success of the US school enrollment-based health insurance (SEBHI) movement coincided with earlier child health insurance initiatives nationwide to influence approval of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). In addition to other initiatives that predated SCHIP, SEBHI programs provided affordable health insurance to Medicaid-ineligible, school-aged children from families lacking health insurance. Initially, some SEBHI programs offered limited coverage such as primary health screenings to participants' preschool siblings and working parents, who could neither afford private health insurance nor qualify the family for Medicaid.[1] The SEBHI and similar ...