Blogs: State Children's Health Insurance Program

Another state program available for low-income families SCHIP is State Children's Health Insurance Program (or). As Medicaid (and as the name suggests), SCHIP is administered at the state level, and so different from the ...

Over the same period, spending on Medicare, Medicaid, the state children's health insurance program and the new premium subsidy entitlement created in the health law will increase from 5.5 percent of GDP this year to about 9.7 percent ...

More Funding Needed For State Health Care Program. AP Georgeanne Koehler knows what happens when people like her brother lose both a good job and health insurance. "Everyone we called gave us the same. ...

Senator Edgardo J. Angara echoed the call of President Aquino and reiterated the need to expand the PhilHealth coverage to cover health insurance program for Filipino children of low-income families through the establishment of a Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). ... But the state cannot afford to neglect the health of our country's children, if we hope to raise a strong and productive future generation," said Angara who authored the law on PhilHealth in 1995. ...

The document also signals that kids with pre-existing conditions should not be shifted from the Children's' Health Insurance Program to the individual market in an attempt to reduce State health care spending and that these policies ...

Medicaid is a state-managed program that is funded by both the states and federal government to provide health insurance for low-income individuals and families that meet the eligibility requirement. Each state has its own set of guidelines regarding eligibility, services, and payments. There are 25 different eligibility categories that can be classified into five broad groups: (1) pregnant women, (2) children and teenager, (3) the elderly, (4) the blind, ...

Over at The Awl, Abe Sauer has been documenting the rise to prominence of Tom Emmer , a Republican member of Minnesota's State House of Representatives who is running to replace Tim Pawlenty as Minnesota's governor. ... the way on issues of equality: over 85% of Fortune 500 companies prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and 40% include gender identity in their nondiscrimination policies; and 57% provide domestic partnership health insurance benefits. ...