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[IWS] CBO: THE STATE CHILDREN'S HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM [10 May 2007]

IWS Documented News Service
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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations
-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor
---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016
-------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
A CBO Paper

The State Children's Health Insurance Program [10 May 2007]
http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/80xx/doc8092/05-10-SCHIP.pdf
[full-text, 31 pages]

[excerpt]
Enacted as title XXI of the Social Security Act in 1997, the State Children's Health
Insurance Program (SCHIP) provides health insurance coverage for uninsured children living
in families with income that is modest but too high for them to be eligible for Medicaid. This
Congressional Budget Office (CBO) paper—prepared at the request of the Chairman and
Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee—summarizes the key features of SCHIP,
provides information on historical trends in enrollment and federal spending, summarizes the
evidence on the effects of the program on children's insurance coverage, and discusses key
issues that are likely to arise as the Congress considers reauthorization of the program this
year. In keeping with CBO's mandate to provide objective, impartial analysis, this paper
makes no recommendations.

Contents
Summary vii
The Design of the State Children's Health Insurance Program 1
Eligibility Criteria for Children 1
Eligibility Criteria for Adults 1
The Design of Benefits 2
Cost Sharing and Premiums 3
The Financing of SCHIP 4
Federal Funding for SCHIP 4
The State Allocation Formula 4
Enrollment in and Expenditures for SCHIP 6
The Effect of SCHIP on Children's Health Insurance Coverage 7
Changes in the Number of Uninsured Children 7
Children's Participation in SCHIP 8
The Effect of SCHIP on Private Coverage 9
Issues in Reauthorizing SCHIP 13
The Cost of Maintaining the States' Current Programs 14
Options for Modifying SCHIP 14
Appendix: Studies Reviewed by the Congressional Budget Office for
This Analysis 19

Tables
1. Enrollment in the State Children's Health Insurance Program, 1998 to 2006 5
2. Allotments and Spending Under the State Children's Health Insurance Program, 1998 to 2007 6
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