NU Online News Service, Aug. 3, 2004, 4:55 p.m. EDT
Big companies are helping public health officials promote free and low-cost children’s health insurance programs.[@@]
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, N.J., has persuaded more than 170 national organizations, including many corporations that have the ability to reach low-income and moderate-income consumers, to join Covering Kids & Families, a campaign to publicize Medicaid and state Children’s Health Insurance Programs.
In some areas, the annual income limit for subsidized CHIP coverage could be as high as $37,000 for a family of 4.