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The Strickland administration has asked regulators to Now a plan to expand the Ohio health insurance program.
Ohio wants to offer health insurance coverage to little tikes in families earning up to 250% of the fed poverty level beginning Apr. 1. Eligibility for Ohio’s SCHIP program presently is capped at 200%
State officials think the expansion would draw an additional 8,168 little tikes into the health insurance program this year and 10,750 more in two thousand and nine,.
The request comes after the Bush administration rejected Ohio’s request to increase eligibility to 300% of the fed poverty level.
Ohio provides health insurance coverage for about 1 million little tikes under the Medicaid system. An estimated 77,000 little tikes lack health-care coverage.
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