Differences That Make A Difference: Comparing Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program Federal Benefit Standards

October 2005


Authors: Cindy Mann and Elizabeth Kenney


This issue brief analyzes the differences between Medicaid and SCHIP’s benefit standards. It reviews the health care guarantees that children would lose if the Medicaid standard were replaced by SCHIP-like rules.

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