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Article: Children's Health Insurance Program Reaches 1998 Target
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- April 20, 1999
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WASHINGTON, April 20 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Nearly 1 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 1 million
children had health ...