Keeping the State Children's Health Care Program Focused on Federal Objectives


 

Publication Date: December 2006

Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)

Author(s): Nina Owcharenko

Research Area: Health

Keywords: Health care; children's health care; medicaid

Type: Speech

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

During the upcoming SCHIP reauthorization debate, federal lawmakers have the responsibility to evaluate both the effectiveness of the program's funding and the soundness of the policies that affect its implementation. SCHIP should be a program that helps to mainstream children in working families into private health care coverage, not one that supplants private coverage.