A
statewide collaboration with the Texas CHIP Coalition
Nationwide,
CHIP and Children’s Medicaid are extremely cost-effective,
delivering comprehensive, affordable health coverage to millions
of American children at a cost 31% lower than private insurance.
Texas children deserve that same effective care, so they can
grow and learn, and so their parents can spend their days at
work, not at the emergency room. Texas taxpayers deserve that
same efficiency, so tax dollars are spent on health care, not
correcting bureaucratic mistakes.
When Texas kids are healthy, everyone wins. This isn't about
politics, it's about doing what's right for our kids.
At
the start of the 80th legislative session, the Insure
Texas Kids Campaign made the following policy
recommendations.
Read
our session
wrap-up for the 80th Texas Legislative Session.
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of the Texas Legislature in 2009.
To
read more about Children's Defense Fund's national Healthy Child
Campaign click
here.
