State Children’s Health Insurance Program – Alaska

Health reform could endanger CHIP funds, By Rosemary Shinohara, January 9, 2010, Anchorage Daily News: “In reshaping America’s health care, Congress may eliminate a major health insurance program for some U.S. children in families with incomes above the federal poverty level, but Alaska’s kids in the program likely won’t be affected. The prospect that Congress may ditch the Children’s Health Insurance Program has raised alarms nationally, with concerns about whether some children will lose insurance, and whether their families will be able to afford private insurance with new government subsidies that would be created…”