SCHIP: How Congress Can Avoid Repeating Last Year's Mistakes

Congress can return SCHIP to its original focus on uninsuredlow-income children by setting a firm cap on eligibility that applies to both SCHIP and Medicaid and by restoring fiscaldiscipline. Blindly expanding SCHIP up the income scale wouldeclipse the potential of more desirable alternatives, especiallyrefundable health care tax credits, which have already attracted abipartisan and philosophical consensus.

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