Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act
Summary of S. 1893
The following summarizes the major provisions of S. 1893, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Reauthorization Act, which passed the full Senate on August 2, 2007. Overview. The Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Reauthorization Act reauthorizes the popular State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), investing an additional $35 billion over five years to strengthen SCHIP’s financing, to increase outreach and enrollment for low-income children of the working poor, to enhance premium assistance options for low-income families, and to improve the quality of health care that children receive from public programs like Medicaid and CHIP. The Act accomplishes the following priorities:…
