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Martinez Bill Would Weaken Children’s Health Coverage
November 5, 2007
Senator Mel Martinez (R-FL) has introduced legislation (S. 2193) intended to rally opponents of bipartisan children’s health legislation recently vetoed by President Bush, a revised version of which was passed by the House on October 25 and the Senate on November 1. The Martinez bill also has been introduced in the House, as H.R. 3888, … -
Senate Republican Leadership to Seek Reconsideration of SCHIP Plan That Would Fail to Make Progress in Covering Uninsured Children
October 10, 2007
Senator Mitch McConnell, the Senate Minority Leader, plans to ask for reconsideration of the SCHIP legislation that he and Senate Minority Whip Trent Lott offered as an alternative during Senate floor debate on SCHIP on August 1. The McConnell-Lott proposal was defeated at that time on a 61-35 vote.[1] In contrast to the bipartisan … -
Lott-Mcconnell SCHIP Proposal Would Fail to Make Progress in Covering Uninsured Children
August 1, 2007
This week, the Senate is considering the “Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2007,” bipartisan children’s health legislation approved on July 19 by the Senate Finance Committee on a 17-4 vote. According to Congressional Budget Office estimates, this legislation would provide health … -
Barton-Deal SCHIP Bill Would Not Provide States Sufficient Funding Even to Maintain Current Caseloads
July 31, 2007
This week, the House is scheduled to consider health legislation developed by the chairmen of the House Energy and Commerce and the House Ways and Means Committees to reauthorize and expand the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). This legislation, known as the “CHAMP Act,” [1] would provide health … -
SCHIP Reauthorization: President’s Budget Would Provide Less than Half the Funds that States Need to Maintain SCHIP Enrollment
Revised March 13, 2007
The President’s fiscal year 2008 budget proposes to reauthorize the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) for five years but provides less than half of the funding needed for states to maintain their existing SCHIP caseloads, let alone to make progress in covering more uninsured low-income children. Under the President’s … -
Clearing Up Confusion on the Costs of Covering Uninsured Children Eligible for Medicaid or SCHIP
March 13, 2007
In recent days, several media accounts have cited some Congressional offices from both parties as saying that a Congressional Budget Office memo issued last month[1] shows that the cost of immediately covering all uninsured children who are eligible for Medicaid or the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) would be $32 billion over five years.[2] Since CBO places the net cost … -
CBO Estimates President's SCHIP Proposal Would Lead to Large Enrollment Declines and Funding Shortfalls
March 13, 2007
On March 9, the Congressional Budget Office issued detailed estimates of the President’s fiscal year 2008 budget proposal to reauthorize the SCHIP program, including estimates of SCHIP enrollment levels and of the federal SCHIP funding shortfall that states will experience over the next five years.[1] The CBO estimates show: Under the … -
Freezing SCHIP Funding In Coming Years Would Reverse Recent Gains In Children's Health Coverage
Revised February 22, 2007
Due in large part to the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), the percentage of low-income children in the United States without health coverage has fallen by one-third since SCHIP was created in 1997, despite the erosion of private health coverage over this period. More than 4 million low-income children, most … -
Chartbook: Improving Children's Health - The Roles of Medicaid and SCHIP
January 1, 2007
This chartbook summarizes current knowledge about the health insurance coverage and health needs of low-income* children in the United States and the roles that Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) — the joint federal-state, publicly funded health insurance programs for children — play in improving children’s health care access …
