SCHIP

All children in America should have healthcare coverage, but millions still do not. Uninsured children do not receive the routine medical care they need and are more likely to be treated at the emergency room for common ailments. Healthy kids enter school prepared to learn and ready to succeed.

No government program has been more successful in expanding children’s healthcare coverage than the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). Since 1997, the number of uninsured children has fallen by almost a third, and today SCHIP covers more than 4 million children. If a program can produce those results in just ten years, imagine what it can accomplish in another ten.

Learn more about First Focus' position on SCHIP

RECENT ACTION

170 Organizations Join in Opposition to August 17th SCHIP Directive (4/15/2008)

New Report Indicates Medicaid Rules Would Hurt Special Needs Children (3/14/2008)

Remember Kids for National Health Reform (2/6/2008)

First Focus President Testifies before House Subcommittee on Children’s Health (1/24/2008)

First Focus Summary of Final SCHIP Agreement (10/1/2007)

1,000 Children Call on Laura Bush to Persuade George to Sign the Children’s Health Bill (9/28/2007)

First Focus Polling Indicates Overwhelming Support for Covering All Children (9/24/2007)

Over 300 Organizations Stand in Opposition to a Presidential Veto of Children’s Health Program (9/13/2007)

Uninsured Data Shows an Alarming Trend in States (9/7/2007)

Summary of the changes that would be made to Medicaid and SCHIP under H.R. 3162 and S. 1893/H.R. 976 (8/15/2007)

First Focus’ Fast Facts on Children’s Health Coverage (8/15/2007)

New First Focus Report Indicates Tax Credits would be Detrimental to Children and Families (8/2/2007)

Reps. Dingell, Rangel, Pallone, and Stark Introduce CHAMP Act to Reauthorize SCHIP (7/26/2007)

First Focus Summary of Senate Finance Committee SCHIP Mark-Up (7/24/2007)

Senate Finance Committee SCHIP Mark-Up Resources (7/17/2007)

New First Focus/GWU Report Indicates the Importance of Parents to Children's Health Coverage (6/25/2007)

Read the First Focus letter to Senators Baucus and Grassley Urging a Strong SCHIP Reauthorization (6/12/2007)

First Focus Endorses Lugar/Bingaman Express Lane to Children's Health (6/1/2007)

Children's Groups Urge President Bush to Strengthen Children's Health Insurance Program (5/21/2007)

Senators Rockefeller, Snowe, and Kennedy Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Reauthorize SCHIP (5/18/2007)

Carsey Institute Report Finds Rural Children Increasingly Rely on Medicaid and SCHIP for Medical Care (5/10/2007)

First Focus Endorses Senator Bingaman's Citizenship Documentation Fix (5/7/2007)

First Focus Supports Emanuel/Ramstad Healthy Kids Act (5/7/2007)

First Focus Supports Stark/Rockefeller MediKids Health Insurance Act (5/7/2007)

First Focus Endorses Community Health Workers Act (5/7/2007)

First Focus Endorses Salazar/Specter Healthy Children and Families Act (4/11/2007)

First Focus Opposes Senator Cornyn's Amendment Gutting Children's Health Insurance (3/21/2007)

First Focus Endorses Smith/Snowe Tobacco Tax Amendment to Fund Children's Health Insurance (3/21/2007)

First Focus Issues Principles for SCHIP Reauthorization (2/25/2007)

Impact of President's FY 2008 Budget Request on SCHIP, Children's Health (2/9/2007)

First Focus Spearheads Bipartisan Letter Urging SCHIP Reauthorization (2/1/2007)

SCHIP Detailed Position (1/1/2007)

170 Organizations Join in Opposition to August 17th SCHIP Directive (4/15/2008)

New Report Indicates Medicaid Rules Would Hurt Special Needs Children (3/14/2008)

Remember Kids for National Health Reform (2/6/2008)

First Focus President Testifies before House Subcommittee on Children’s Health (1/24/2008)

First Focus Summary of Final SCHIP Agreement (10/1/2007)
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