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Save the Children Supports Plan to Improve Health Care for Kentucky Children
Save the Children strongly supports Governor
Beshear's proposed plan to streamline the Kentucky Children's Health
Insurance Program -- often referred to as "K-CHIP" -- to ensure poor
children receive important health services. By removing barriers to
access, more children eligible but not currently receiving health coverage
would be insured.
"Save the Children greatly appreciates Governor Beshear's leadership on
this very important issue of children's health," said Mark Shriver,
anaging Director of Save the Children United States Programs. "Save the
Children provides programs to support poor children living in rural eastern
Kentucky. Governor Beshear's proposal will provide health care access to
these very same children which will help them tremendously."
K-CHIP provides medical coverage for those children who do not qualify for
edicaid and whose family income does not exceed 200% of the Federal
Poverty Line. Medical services covered include health, dental, vision, and
hearing coverage, child care and other special services.
Governor Beshear's proposal would increase the number of poor children
currently enrolled in K-CHIP by increasing the program's outreach and
retention efforts, simplifying the application process, and beefing up
implementation. As a whole, Beshear's proposal will make it easier for
children to receive health care at a reasonable cost to the state. The
proposed changes will be implemented starting November 1, 2008.
"The Beshear plan focuses on reducing barriers to health care access,
ensuring more children who are eligible can tap benefits," said Shriver.
"Reforming this existing government program to work more efficiently is a
clear win for Kentucky's children."
Save the Children is the leading independent organization creating real and
lasting change for children in need in the United States and around the
world. Save the Children's local Kentucky programs are located in the
Appalachian region, providing childhood development, literacy, physical
activity, and nutrition programming.
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