Playing politics with children’s health insurance
Posted by Wayne Guglielmo on August 17th, 2007. Filed under: health policy, health insurers, health policy, healthcare reform, opinion, State-Childrens-Health-Insurance-Program, the-uninsured.
Earlier this year, wary observers were hoping against hope that the traditionally bipartisan issue of children’s insurance wouldn’t become entangled in ideologically driven, election-season debates over healthcare reform.
But that’s precisely what’s happening this summer as Congress and the Bush administration square off over reauthorization of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), the federal-state partnership aimed at kids whose families earn too much to qualify for Medicaid but not enough to buy private insurance. continues…
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