State Children's Health Insurance Program 

All children in America should have healthcare coverage, but millions still do not.  Uninsured children do not receive the routine medical care they need and are more likely to be treated at the emergency room for common ailments.  Healthy kids enter school prepared to learn.

No government program has been more successful in expanding children’s healthcare coverage than the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).  Since 1997, the number of uninsured children has fallen by almost a third, and today SCHIP covers more than 4 million children.  If a program can produce those results in just ten years, imagine what it can accomplish in another ten.

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