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May, 2001 George
Washington University
Center for Health Services Research
and Policy
 State SCHIP Design and
the Right to Coverage
Executive Summary
This Policy Brief
is the first in a series of reports examining the design of state
SCHIP programs as they near full implementation status. It
explores, whether states in their enabling legislation
establishing separate SCHIP programs confer upon eligible children
an individual legal right to health insurance benefits (i.e., an
individual entitlement) under state law, similar to the
entitlement that Medicaid eligible children enjoy under federal
law. The question of whether states guarantee necessary health
coverage for low-income children through the creation of an
individual entitlement is fundamental to the study of state policy
making under SCHIP.
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