Health insurance failing to reach children

    By: Bill Hangley

    Children’s health advocates are hoping that the Obama administration can make good on a promise to expand the federal Children’s Health Insurance Program known as CHIP. But here in greater Philadelphia they say the biggest obstacle to expansion is signing people up. WHYY’s Bill Hangley reports.

    By: Bill Hangley
    bhangley@whyy.org

    Children’s health advocates are hoping that the Obama administration can make good on a promise to expand the federal Children’s Health Insurance Program known as CHIP. But here in greater Philadelphia they say the biggest obstacle to expansion is signing people up. WHYY’s Bill Hangley reports. [audio: reports20090128health-chip.mp3]

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