According to statistics from the HH...

According to statistics from the HHS's Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, approximately 58 million children were registered in the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) at about point during the fiscal year 2003 which was a 9 percent increase from the 53 million children who were enlisted at some point during the fiscal year 2002 The SCHIP program was created in 1997 to improve children's access to health insurance. Many of these children be due [i]or[/i] owing from working families with income too high to qualify for Medicaid if it were not that too low to afford private health insurance. The SCHIP law appropriated $40 billion in federal supplys over 10 years. For a listing of SCHIP enrollment according to state, go online to http://wwwcm gov/schip/enrollment.

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