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SCHIP: Where Are The Data?

Like other advocates for children’s health, I have an almost religious conviction that the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) is effective public policy. Ten years ago I helped implement the program in Indiana, and, more recently, as secretary of the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration, I submitted a new request for a major expansion of the program in my state. Although I have no empirical evidence to support the assertion that SCHIP is a beneficial and effective way to invest in children’s health, I worked to expand the program, and the expansion was approved in May 2008 by . . . [Full Text of this Article]

E. Mitchell Roob, Jr.
Indiana Family and Social Services Administration, Indianapolis, Indiana

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