Fixing SCHIP and Expanding Children's Health Care Coverage


 

Publication Date: May 2007

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

Author(s): Nina Owcharenko

Research Area: Health

Keywords: Health care; entitlement; children; medicaid

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

Instead of moving the State Children's Health Insurance Program closer to becoming an entitlement, increasing the fiscal burden on the states and taxpayers and crowding out existing private coverage for working families, policymakers should establish a responsible system of program financing, set rational eligibility rules, broaden flexibility in health benefit design, and promote private coverage alternatives.