1st Edition

The Children's Health Insurance Program Past and Future

By David G. Smith Copyright 2011
121 Pages
by Routledge

120 Pages
by Routledge

121 Pages
by Routledge

The Children's Health Insurance Program was crafted in a period of intense partisan and ideological controversy over health care entitlements to provide "creditable coverage" for American children below 200 percent of the Federal Poverty Level. This objective was widely supported, though achieved only by a compromise between the structural alternatives of a block grant, similar to the Maternal and... Read more
Preface, Acknowledgments, Introduction: The Children’s Health Insurance Program—Past and Future, 1. Origins and Legislation, 2. Implementation, 3. CHIPRA and PPACA, 4. CHIP and the Future, 5. Thoughts to Take Away, Glossary, Bibliography, Index

Biography

David G. Smith