Kids overlooked in reform debate

State Children's Health Insurance Program has recently been accepted by the Senate and signed by President Barack Obama. SCHIP has been a 12 year national success story that has provided coverage to more than 7 million low-income children, and hopefully that number will increase to 14.1 million children by 2013.

SCHIP guarantees that children who do not qualify for Medicaid will still have health care. SCHIP has cut the rate of uninsured children to less than 10%, compared with 20% for adults. Even when the rate of uninsured adults is increasing, the rate for uninsured children is decreasing. The Senate will fund SCHIP until 2019.

This is definitely a program that works.