"Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale" – Rudolf Virchow
Tuesday September 7th 2010

‘Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)’ Archives

2009 Year in Review

To open the year in 2009, Policy Prescriptions suggested a New Year’s Resolution for then [...]

President Obama signs SCHIP reauthorization

Although SCHIP re-authorization was signed into law by President Obama on February 4, 2009, several [...]

Does expanding children’s health insurance save money in the long run?

A statewide study of potentially preventable hospital admissions for children revealed small but [...]

The argument to expand SCHIP

A research letter in the Journal of the American Medical Association evaluated data from the [...]

A Policy Prescription for 2009

As a new dawn embraces the United States of America, President Barack Obama and the 111th Congress [...]