Friday, October 19, 2007

Insurance? Good. SCHIP? 

Filed As:  Health Care

I had a commentary in yesterday's Wall Street Journal outlining fundamental questions that members should ask in the next round: Will an expansion of the program help or hurt the children it was designed to serve? What is the quality of coverage kids will get through the program? And is SCHIP the right vehicle to start a journey toward universal coverage?

The ideal solution would be to focus on making sure there is enough money in the program to cover the core eligible children, give states better incentives to get them covered, and offer new options for parents to use their SCHIP allocation to add their children to private policies. Then, we can have the larger debate about the best way to expand coverage to millions more children and families who are left out of the current system.

• posted by Grace-Marie Turner
• 1:20 pm
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