Word: chips
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...other states, from West Virginia to Hawaii, lawmakers are talking about cutting funding, narrowing eligibility or placing restrictions on CHIP. And that's just one small part of what the new health-care crisis looks like across America. In California nurses are leaving hospitals to take jobs at Starbucks and Macy's because the benefits and working conditions are better, and hospitals are so understaffed that patients' families are answering phones on the wards. In Arkansas lawmakers cut a deal last week to preserve Medicaid benefits, after protesting parents wheeled their disabled children into the statehouse. In Idaho parents angry...
...raise in January, only to find that she then earned too much to qualify for Medicaid. Her employer, a doctor's office, does not have a health plan. The best deal she could find on private insurance was $400 a month, and because of recent cuts in Illinois's CHIP program, someone at Godboldt's income level would have to pay a monthly deductible of $2,300. She recently had to pay $450 when her 6-year-old daughter needed X rays and blood work. "It was really hard, but I didn't have a choice," Godboldt says...
...their 5-year-old's prescription drugs. They could not qualify for Medicaid beyond their children's first birthdays because Amador's job as a painter and wallpaper hanger pays an average of $350 a week, just over the income limit. But in 1999 Candy heard about CHIP from a social-services agency where she was seeking help to pay for her son's dental care. "It was so easy," says Candy. "All I had to do was show my husband's pay stub...
Texas was two years late in taking maximum advantage of federal matching funds to start its CHIP program, going full force only in 1999, after the situation became an embarrassment to a certain "compassionate conservative" who was thinking about running for President. Now, with roughly 530,000 children enrolled, the Texas program is considered a model of how far CHIP can reach--but faces a possible $20 million shortfall. State lawmakers are looking to Washington for Medicaid money, but the Administration wants to hold the line on domestic spending in order to fund the war on terror. Working parents like...
...Today show. "I thought it was great technology," he says. "I wanted to be a part of it." And when Derek sets his mind to a problem, he generally solves it. "Derek stood up and said to me, 'Mom, I want to be the first kid implanted with the chip,'" remembers Leslie Jacobs, an advertising executive at Florida Design magazine. "He kept bugging me to call the company until I finally broke down...