Summary of the Senate SCHIP Bill: The Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2007
August 2007
This issue brief provides a summary of the child health provisions of the SCHIP reauthorization bill that was approved by the U.S. Senate on August 3, 2007. The bill proposes providing states with $35 billion over five years in new SCHIP and Medicaid funding to cover an additional four million children.
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