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Article: Ill. votes start-up funds for CHIP plan. (comprehensive health insurance plan)
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- National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management
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- January 23, 1989
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Ill. Votes Start-Up Funds For CHIP Plan
A state-subsidized comprehensive health insurance plan to provide coverage for the medically uninsurable in Illinois is expected to become operational in mid-April following recent approval by the Illinois General Assembly of $5.8 million in start-up funds for the plan.
Legislation creating the plan--called CHIP for comprehensive health insurance plan--was enacted Feb. 9, 1987. The two-year wait for CHIP to become operational was caused by legal, political, and funding difficulties, a representative of the state explained.
Initially, about 4,000 Illinois residents are expected to enroll in CHIP and pay an ...