SCHIP Reauthorization
Issues for Congressional Consideration
Enrollment in the State Children’s Health Insurance Program increased rapidly during the program’s early years but has stabilized over the past several years. SCHIP programs reported total enrollment of approximately 6 million individuals — including about 639,000 adults — as of Fiscal Year (FY) 2005, the latest year for which data were available, with about 4 million individuals enrolled in June of that year. Many States adopted innovative outreach strategies and simplified and streamlined their enrollment processes in order to reach as many eligible children as possible. Nevertheless, about 11.7 percent of children nationwide remain uninsured, many of whom are…
