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Transcript: CHILDREN'S HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM REACHES 1998 TARGET NEARLY ONE MILLION CHILDREN ENROLLED
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- Regulatory Intelligence Data
- Article date:
- April 20, 1999
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Nearly one million children have received health insurance coverage
in
the first year of the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP),
HHS Secretary
Donna E. Shalala announced today.
The CHIP law, passed in 1997, allocates $24 billion over five
years to
help states expand health insurance to children whose families earn
too
much to qualify for traditional Medicaid, yet not enough to afford
private
health insurance. The Children's Health Insurance Program is the most
significant
improvement in access to health care for children since the creation
of
Medicaid in 1965.
State and U.S. territories estimates show that close to one million
children had health ...