WASHINGTON — Thousands of uninsured children whose states planned to offer them coverage will instead continue to go without coverage as a result of the Bush administration’s Aug. 17 policy directive imposing new federal limits on State Children’s Health Insurance Programs (SCHIP), and tens of thousands of more children will be affected in the coming months, according to a report released today by the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families.
The report, Moving Backward: Status Report on the Impact of the August 17 SCHIP Directive to Impose New Limits on States’ Ability to Cover Uninsured Children, is the first comprehensive review of the impact of the new policy that effectively limits SCHIP coverage to children in families with income below 250 percent of the federal poverty level (FPL).
