Children's Health: SCHIP Should Not Become a Welfare Entitlement


 

Publication Date: May 2007

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

Author(s): Nina Owcharenko

Research Area: Health

Keywords: Health care; health insurance; medicaid; poor

Type: Brief

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

To protect taxpayers and preserve private sector aspects of the program, Congress must prevent the State Children's Health Insurance Program from morphing into an extension of Medicaid.