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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