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Transcript: THE CHILDREN'S HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM (CHIP)
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- Regulatory Intelligence Data
- Article date:
- January 11, 1999
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Overview: Proposed by President Clinton and passed as part of the historic,
bipartisan Balanced Budget Act of 1997, the Children's Health Insurance
Program (CHIP). CHIP is the largest single expansion of health insurance
coverage for children in more than 30 years. Today, nearly 11 million
American
children -- one in seven -- are uninsured. To reach these children,
many
of whom come from working families with incomes too high to qualify
for
Medicaid but too low to afford private health insurance, this new
initiative
set aside $24 billion over five years for states to provide new health
coverage for millions of children -- the largest children's health
care
investment ...