Children's Health Insurance
Colorado to cap state program for kids from low-income families
Published in Managed Care Weekly Digest, November 10th, 2003
State officials planned to stop accepting new people into the Child Health Plan Plus as of November 1, 2003.
The federal government gives $2 to the program for every $1 the state spends. However, the state doesn't have enough money to keep enrolling people, said Sen. Dave Owen, R-Greeley, head of the Legislature's Joint Budget Committee. "They're lucky they aren't going to be cut," Owen said.
The program provides health insurance to about 56,000 children whose families...
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