Dubay Lisa, Guyer Jocelyn, Mann Cindy, Odeh Michael
Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Health Aff (Millwood). 2007 Mar-Apr;26(2):370-81. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.26.2.370.
The adoption of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) in 1997 spurred widespread efforts to simplify and revitalize Medicaid coverage for children. To an extent often not recognized, these Medicaid improvements were a key factor behind much of the progress that has been made in covering low-income children: These children's uninsurance rate dropped from 22.3 percent in 1997 to 14.9 percent in 2005, and more than 70 percent of those gains can be attributed to Medicaid. The program, however, faces a number of issues that will need to be addressed if the country is to continue to make progress.
1997年《州儿童健康保险计划》（SCHIP）的采用促使人们广泛努力简化并振兴儿童医疗补助保险覆盖范围。在很大程度上，这些医疗补助保险的改进是在覆盖低收入儿童方面取得诸多进展背后的一个关键因素：这些儿童的未参保率从1997年的22.3%降至2005年的14.9%，其中超过70%的降幅可归因于医疗补助保险。然而，如果国家要继续取得进展，该计划面临一些需要解决的问题。
