Expanding health insurance for children.
This issue of States of Health provides information that advocates, consumers, legislators, and other policymakers can use in crafting effective state health insurance programs for children.  It looks at states' options under the rules and funding of the State Children's Health Insurance Program, the 10-year, $50-billion federal package enacted in 1997 as Title XXI, highlighting the critical program design issues that may mean the difference between healthy children and wasted opportunity.
D002648:Child; D002662:Child Health Services / Q000191:economics*; D003256:Community Participation; D017047:Cost Sharing; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D007348:Insurance, Health / Q000191:economics / Q000639:trends; D008484:Medicaid; D013219:State Government; D014481:United States