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Publication Date: September 2007
Publisher: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (Washington, D.C.)
Author(s): Robert Greenstein
Research Area: Health
Keywords: Economic projections; Federal budget; Health insurance; Economic inequality
Type: Report
Abstract:
Today’s agreement would extend health coverage to several million low-income uninsured children, a major accomplishment. Contrary to White House rhetoric, the bulk of the children who would gain coverage are poor and near-poor children who are uninsured, not middle-income children with private coverage.