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Running Head : KIDS AREN 'T ALL RIGHT

Summary on the Article Kid 's Aren 't All Right

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Summary on the Article Kid 's Aren 't All Right

The article The Kids Aren 't All Right that was published in the business column Newsweek on October 29 , 2007 issue , and was written by Jane Bryant Quinn is about the tax deductions for people at all income levels who buy their own health insurance which is a program of President George W

. Bush

The article tackles about the SCHIP or the State Children 's Health Insurance Program , a 10-year old program which primarily insures lower-income kids to qualify for Medicaid . It is said in the article that the program become an innocent victim of ideology wars , where about half of the states set the income cut off at twice the poverty level In the District of Columbia and eighteen other states of the country the cut off goes higher while the other nine states lower the ceilings (Quinn , 2007

The Congress last September had voted to add 35 billion to the SCHIP over the next five years . Then the House Republicans sustained the bill late this October that President Bush vetoed . Several questions were raised by the opponents of the SCHIP to attack its aims . And Quinn answered those questions in her article

The first question is Is SCHIP run by the government ' The answer is no . It is only funded by the government like other health insurance institution such as the Medicare , but it is run by private sectors

Another question is if this program covers illegal aliens . Quinn answered No . The SCHIP does not cover illegal aliens and the program doesn 't even cover the legal immigrants unless they 've been here in the country for at least five years

Opponents also asked if the taxpayers ' money will only be wasted on the undeserving middle class because of the bill about the program . The answer is no again because it covers 3 .2 million lower-income kids and includes 2 .5 million eligible but haven 't been included yet

It was also asked whether this program is funding more adults than children . There are only ten percent of adults in the program 's population , so the answer is no

Another question is Are parents dropping of giving up the private coverage and switch to government program ' Some parents go on government program and it that cannot be helped . Quinn also presented data on switching like that among new kids enrolled in the program , 28 percent have had insurance before , half had lost it , and others have dropped it

President Bush offer on the program is not enough to maintain it 4 .77 billion . And then he favors another program which is the tax deductions among people of all income levels . Lewin Group , a health-care consulting firm , analyze Bush proposal and found out that 80 percent of the money that will be generated...