CBO Estimates Show Large Gains In Children's Health Coverage Under Senate SCHIP Bill

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; Income diversity

Type: Report

Abstract:

Congressional Budget Office estimates show that 4 million children who otherwise would be uninsured would have health care coverage by 2012 under the bipartisan children’s health legislation that the Senate Finance Committee approved on July 19 by a 17-4 vote.  CBO estimates that 2.7 million of these children are uninsured children who would already be eligible for the program under the current eligibility limits that states have set in the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and Medicaid, and another 800,000 are SCHIP children who would otherwise lose their coverage in coming years and end up uninsured under the “budget baseline.”