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Publication Date: August 2007
Publisher: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (Washington, D.C.)
Author(s): Edwin Park
Research Area: Health
Keywords: Economic projections; Health insurance; Health care costs; Retirement
Type: Report
Abstract:
The legislation would not only reauthorize the State Children’s Health Insurance Program and extend coverage to five million uninsured children but also would curb excessive payments now being made to private Medicare Advantage plans under the Medicare program and thereby strengthen Medicare’s finances.