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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Road Walker who wrote (2513)	10/30/2007 11:27:36 AM
From: TimF	Respond to of 42652

I know you can qualify even if you own expensive assets, but I'm not sure if that's limited to your home, or home and car, or whether it doesn't matter what assets you own. Edit - Well this seems to provide a pretty good (if not total) answer. "States can establish asset (resource) requirements, but they need not do so. Most states have no asset limit for their children's coverage in either Medicaid or their seperate child health programs" ccf.georgetown.edu And some more information - "SCHIP: Parents Not Legally Obligated To Support Their Minor Children With the SCHIP program, parents with assets accessible to do so are not legally obligated to protect their minor children’s health by providing them insurance. As this Kaiser 2006 survey of all the states details, in all but three states a family’s assets are not considered at all in determining eligibility for SCHIP. (As I pointed out here Maryland, home of the Frost’s, and California, my home, do not consider assets in qualification for SCHIP.)" democracy-project.com I don't know what those three states are, or what sort of asset limits they apply. I don't know how high they are or if it includes the value of the primary residence (I'd guess that it does not). But in 47 states there are no asset limits for Schip. And apparently in Texas the asset limit for SCHIP eligibility, while very tight ($5000), only applies to families above 150% of the poverty line in income, so there would be no asset limit for people below that line.