State Budget Cuts Weaken Impact of Children's Health Insurance Expansion
June 01, 2010
State budget cuts are impeding the goal of a 2009 federal law to provide health insurance coverage to 4 million more low-income children, according to a report by USA Today.
The law offers more than $10 billion in federal matching grants to states to expand the Children's Health Insurance Program, but many states have not come up with their side of the match.
About 15 states scaled back coverage by increasing waiting periods, raising premiums or making sign-up more complicated, according to a study by the Kaiser Family Foundation, the National Academy for State Health Policy and Georgetown University's Center for Children and Families.
Read USA Today's report on health insurance for children.
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