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Pastimes : Clown-Free Zone... sorry, no clowns allowed

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To: flatsville who wrote (33899)11/5/2000 4:33:13 PM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (2) of 436258
 
>>40 States Forfeit Health Care Funds for
Poor Children

By ROBERT PEAR

ASHINGTON, Sept. 23 — Forty
states will soon lose hundreds of
millions of dollars of federal money that was
supposed to provide health insurance to children
in low-income families, federal and state officials say.

The money — 45 percent of the $4.2 billion provided by Congress —
remains unspent by the states after three years. It will be given to New
York and nine other states that used their full allotments of federal money
under the Children's Health Insurance Program, which was created by
Congress, with much enthusiasm and fanfare, in 1997.

"We would like to be able to keep that money and use it to provide health
care to children," said Helene Robinson, director of the state program in
Louisiana, which expects to lose $63.7 million, or 63 percent of its federal
allotment of $101.7 million.

California and Texas account for more than half of the unspent money —
$590 million and $446.3 million, respectively. Together, they have 29
percent of the nation's 11 million uninsured children.<<

Hmmm, isn't Gray Davis a Democrat? ;^)

nytimes.com
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