Stateline
December 7, 2011
When the national health law was enacted early last year, it contained one seemingly technical provision that few people noticed. It lifted a ban on state employees enrolling their kids in the federally subsidized Children’s Health Insurance Plan (CHIP). In fact, that was no small move. It promised relief from a 13-year restriction resented as unfair by low-income teachers, university staff and other members of the state workforce. But states have been slow to take advantage of it.
