The State Child Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)

Paper Summary:

This paper explains that the State Child Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) is a program formulated and implemented by both federal and state governments to assist poor working families, who cannot afford private health insurance. The paper then points out SCHIP is not immune to various issues that threaten its efficacy as a federal and state program. The paper then goes on to discusses these issues involving SCHIP, together with proposals for the enhancement of the current policy. Moreover, the paper investigates prospects for the future of SCHIP, specifically those involving fiscal and economic factors that would determine the capacity of SCHIP to help federal and state governments provide health care assistance. The paper includes charts and an annotated bibliography.

Table of Contents:
Abstract
Statement and Significance of the Health Policy
Related Issues and Consequences, Including Groups Supporting/Opposing the Policy
Proposals for Enhancing, Changing, or Eliminating the Health Policy
Prospects for the Future of the Health Policy
Author's Position While Critiquing the Health Policy

From the Paper:

"The importance of public health care coverage becomes more apparent when the situation is viewed from the perspective of low-income children who lack private coverage. These children are shown to have persistently lagged behind children with public or private coverage when their status of health is assessed based on any measure of access to care. Since poor children have no access to preventive and primary health care, there is great and apparent disparity in the children's health status."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Andersen, R., Rice, T., & Kominski, G. (2001). Changing the U. S. Health Care System. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass
• Bruflat, C. (1999). SCHIP: State Children's Health Insurance Program. Health Care Advocate, 21-22.
• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). Retrieved January 5, 2008 from http://www.cms.hhs.gov/
• Crotty, S. (2007). The Impact of Program Design on Enrollment in State Children's Health Insurance Programs. The Policy Studies Journal, 23-35
• Glied, S. (2007). Lessons from SCHIP. Health Services Research, 1439-1442

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