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 SCHIP is signed into Law The State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) was created in 1997 to insure children in families not qualified for Medicaid and unable to afford private insurance. SCHIP, a bipartisan solution, was designed to provide states with federal support for children’s health access.

On February 4th, President Obama signed in law the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act, which provides health insurance to an estimated 11 million low-income children. The new law reverses a decade-long policy of enforcing a five-year bar on legal immigrant children & pregnant women seeking coverage. 