Here’s what you should know.
1. Children make up more than 50 percent of the Medicaid program’s beneficiary base.
2. Across the nation, CHIP and Medicaid combine to cover approximately 50 percent of all children.
3. Through these programs combined with private insurance, 95 percent of the nation’s children have health insurance.
4. Steve Allen,the CEO of Columbus, Ohio-based Nationwide Children’s Hospital, argues the work hospitals are doing to control costs should negate the need for any such cuts.
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