The historic health-care reform bill makes for an exciting milestone but I am very nervous because it will render obsolete the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). Children would instead be moved into a federal “exchange program.”
Could be a smart trade-off. Or it could be the health-care-reform version of cash for clunkers.
Washington state doesn’t have a clunker we need taken off our hands. We are one of only 13 states that offers health insurance to children from families earning up to 300 percent of the federal poverty level, or nearly $55,000 for a family of three.