{"id":37317,"date":"2009-11-06T08:53:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T13:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"bf28fe81-ee2c-4d72-bdc1-2ed7ec1a1fa9"},"modified":"2009-11-06T08:53:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-06T13:53:00","slug":"chip-provision-in-health-bill-triggers-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/37317","title":{"rendered":"CHIP Provision In Health Bill Triggers Concern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The $894 billion health reform bill working its way toward a House vote this week would repeal the Children&#8217;s Health Insurance Program, shifting some low-income kids into Medicaid and others into private plans that would both cost more and guarantee fewer benefits,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/66874\/in-house-health-bill-kids-play-%E2%80%98lottery-of-geography%E2%80%99\" >The Washington Independent<\/a> reports. &#8220;Which program the youngsters tumble into hinges, not on need, but on the state where they live \u2013 a design some advocates call &#8216;the lottery of geography.'&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Under CHIP, which was designed to cover kids in families that earn too much to qualify for Medicaid, states &#8220;were granted broad discretion to fashion the program to fit their needs, with some carving out a separate CHIP program, some using CHIP funds to expand Medicaid eligibility, and still others opting for some combination of the two.&#8221; The House bill handles the two models differently. &#8220;While it expands Medicaid eligibility to 150 percent of poverty and shifts all kids living above that level to private plans contained on a proposed insurance marketplace, or exchange, the proposal also carves out an exception in states which augmented Medicaid in lieu of creating a separate CHIP program. In those cases, the youngsters would remain in Medicaid. The distinction carries both coverage and cost implications.&#8221; (Lillis, 11\/6).<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/khn\/fulltext\/~4\/BHc5RWKyan8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The $894 billion health reform bill working its way toward a House vote this week would repeal the Children&#8217;s Health Insurance Program, shifting some low-income kids into Medicaid and others into private plans that would both cost more and guarantee fewer benefits,&#8221; The Washington Independent reports. &#8220;Which program the youngsters tumble into hinges, not on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}