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Texas' Challenge as Congress Reauthorizes CHIP: Federal Block Grant Funding Must Grow to Avoid Future Texas CHIP Cuts and Allow for Coverage of Eligible but not Enrolled Children

  

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Anne Dunkelberg /(512) 320-0222 x 102

January 10, 2007

Covering Texas Kids: Federal SCHIP Reauthorization is Next Step in Building on Success of Texas Medicaid and CHIP >>  
Texas' Challenge as Congress Reauthorizes CHIP: Federal Block Grant Funding Must Grow to Avoid Future Texas CHIP Cuts and Allow for Coverage of Eligible but not Enrolled Children >>  

Steep caseload declines and unspent federal funds have other states eyeing Texas’ share. Congress is scheduled to debate reauthorization of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP, known in Texas as CHIP) block grant in 2007. Despite strong public support for CHIP and new Congressional leadership, winning additional funding for the block grant is not expected to be easy, given the strong commitment to fiscal restraint from both sides of the aisle.