Kids First?

• Nathan Benefield
• August 22, 2007

David Freddoso on SCHIP on National Review Online takes on two key parts of the SCHIP debate. First is the Bush administration’s new rules that states will have to…

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Expanding SCHIP Will Challenge State Finances

• Nathan Benefield
• August 16, 2007

Heritage Foundation looks at the effect of the proposed Congressional SCHIP expansion, and offers A State-by-State Analysis of the effect on finances. The SCHIP expansion under consideration would increase…

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The Schip Revelation

• Nathan Benefield
• August 9, 2007

Wall Street Journal on the absurdity of the debate on SCHIP Expansion: Schip was supposed to help children from low-income families … Schip was created as a…

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Why Expanding SCHIP is a bad idea

• Nathan Benefield
• August 2, 2007

Resources on the proposed SCHIP expansion (which would increase federal subsidies for health care for the non-poor) from: Heritage FoundationTax FoundationWashington Policy CenterNational…

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Tax Impact of SCHIP Expansion

• Nathan Benefield
• July 6, 2007

Last week I pointed out that Governor Rendell’s call for increased federal funding of SCHIP was because by passing “Cover All Kids”, the General Assembly created a program which…

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More on SCHIP

• Nathan Benefield
• June 26, 2007

After noting yesterday that Governor Rendell demanded more federal SCHIP money to fund his “Cover All Kids” initiative, I saw this recent Heritage Foundation WebMemo summarizing research that…

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Rendell begs for more federal tax money for SCHIP

• Nathan Benefield
• June 25, 2007

Governor Rendell calls for more federal funding for the state’s Child Health Insurance Program (S-CHIP). Why? Because without it, the “Cover All Kids” plan passed last year would cost…

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SCHIP Crowds out Private Insurance

• Nathan Benefield
• May 14, 2007

A new CBO report on SCHIP (government-run health insurance for kids, recently expanded in PA under Governor Rendell’s “Cover All Kids”) remarks that government health insurance creates dramatic “crowd…

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Uncovering Cover All Kids

• Nathan Benefield
• October 10, 2006

This past summer, state legislative leaders sent Governor Rendell a letter promising legislation by October authorizing the Governor’s “Cover All Kids” initiative. They included over $2 million in the state…

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