Children's Health Insurance Program

Taylor & Francis

The Children's Health Insurance Program was crafted in a period of intense partisan and ideological controversy over health care entitlements to provide \""creditable coverage\"" for American children below 200 percent of the Federal Poverty Level > The Children's Health Insurance Program was crafted in a period of intense partisan and ideological controversy over health care entitlements to provide \""creditable coverage\"" for American children below 200 percent of the Federal Poverty Level. This objective was widely supported, though achieved only by a compromise between the structural alternatives of a block grant, similar to the Maternal and Child Health Block Grant or an entitlement resembling Medicaid.According to David G. Smith, the CHIP compromise has been a successful experiment that far exceeded expectations, both in identifying and enrolling \""targeted low-income children\"" and in earning political capital. He argues that beyond this core mission, the reauthorization of CHx