Democrats claim they're trying to help poor children, and that anyone who opposes expanding the State Children's Health Insurance Program ... is that the federal government already has a ...

CHIP pays for health care for more than 9 million kids across the country. It’s a joint state-federal plan, part of the Medicare and Medicaid family of government health insurance. Congress let ...

But her biggest stressor is worrying about health insurance ... plans that the government paid for last year. Even health care decisions not directly aimed at coverage for children often had ...

“The peace of mind that this program has supplied me is not measurable.” Government health insurance for children is no longer available only for the poorest households. Now middle-class ...

At least 128,000 children over a two-year span were purged from TennCare or CoverKids, two Tennessee government health insurance programs for low-income families. It appears tens of thousands of ...

The biggest fight in Congress over renewing a popular federal health insurance program for kids has to do with how many will leave private coverage to get government insurance instead. Too many ...

The State Children's Health Insurance Program (S-CHIP ... who heads the Medicaid and S-CHIP programs for the federal government. "Really the most important message...was find those low-income ...

Our study shows that gaining access to government-provided health insurance coverage also affects a child’s household in positive ways. One reason that’s important: Prior research has shown ...

Federal government hopes to provide ... lose Medicaid coverage to cover their children's medical bills through KidCare, a federally subsidized health insurance program. But Florida and the federal ...

Health insurance for kids seems pretty hard to object to—and the American public doesn’t. But that hasn’t stopped the Bush administration. The idea that kids should have health insurance ...