PASS THE BILL ... Facts on State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)

These facts come from the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire. The Institute specializes in rural studies. All data is from 2005, the most recent data available:

• Almost 4 million rural children depend upon SCHIP.
• 32 percent of children in rural areas rely on SCHIP or Medicaid compared with 26 percent of children in metro areas. This number has been rising steadily as manufacturing and other jobs with benefits dry up and private insurance becomes unaffordable.
  
• Even with SCHIP available, many continue to go without insurance.
  
• More than 1.3 million rural children were uninsured.
  
• More than half of these children were in families whose head worked full-time, year round.

To read more about this important program: Rural Children Increasingly Rely on Medicaid
and SCHIP.

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