Hawaii drops universal health care for kids, cites "crowd out"
Hawaii is dropping its "universal" health care program for children, in part because it is too costly (particularly given a budget crunch), but also because of the trend know as "crowd out". That is, most of the children enrolling in the program had dropped private coverage to enroll.
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The maximum income limit is now $82,000 for CHIP coverage. I can tell you for a fact I know of at least 3 couples who have dropped coverage for their children and put them on CHIP because it's cheaper (for them) and provides greater coverage. Since everything will be "free" soon, I want to thank Ed Rendell before the tax increase.
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