Publications by Deborah Chang for Health Policy Center

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This paper examines successes and shortcomings of the SCHIP program. SCHIP is a source of coverage for millions of children, improving their access to health care and sparking innovation in program design and improvements in Medicaid. Concurrently, SCHIP has added to the complexity of the insurance system and introduced new inequities in access to insurance. It is imperfectly targeting eligible uninsured children, and the financing of the program is problematic because of the block-grant funding structure and the use of SCHIP funds to cover adults. These issues need to be addressed during the SCHIP reauthorization process, which is scheduled to begin in federal fiscal year 2006. (Kenney, Genevieve, and Debbie Chang. September/October 2004. "The State Children's Health Insurance Program: Successes, Shortcomings, and Challenges." Health Affairs 23(5): 51-62.)

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