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Montana’s CHIP program essential to economy

This month, October 2009, Montanans embark on the beginning of the end of an unfortunate era. Montana and five other states here in the Rocky Mountain West have had the highest percentage of uninsured children in America. Starting this month and for the first time, Montana is going to assure health care coverage to the children of this state’s middle-income workers.

The effort is called State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and Montanans are hopeful that other western states will follow our lead or, better yet, the U.S. Congress will enact health care for all. Almost unbelievably, here in the Rockies, working families with children—not welfare but working families—suffer the worst health-care coverage in the world, unless, of course, we want to compare ourselves with poverty-ridden, war-torn, ungovernable disaster zones around the world.

By Pat Williams

Full Story: http://www.headwatersnews.org/pat.CHIP100109.html

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