State budget crunches squeeze parents' coverage. (Medicaid/SCHIP).

Publication: Medicine & Health

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The state fiscal crisis is taking a significant toll on health coverage for low-income parents, and to a lesser extent their children, according to an examination of state changes in their Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance Programs from January 2002 to April 2003.

"For the past several years, states have been vigorously expanding eligibility and simplifying enrollment and renewal procedures in Medicaid and SCHIP," said the report's lead author,...

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