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Assuring that low-income children have health coverage would seem to be a noncontroversial and popular issue. Yet, the policy history of US children’s health insurance is full of drama, and the fate of the federal State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) has been marked by ideological conflict and two presidential vetoes. Why? Alice Sardell answers this question through an examination of the policy legacies and decisions that shaped SCHIP, the advocacy strategies that created and sustained it, and the actors who interacted to either support or oppose its expansion. Equally, her analysis illustrates the critical importance of policy entrepreneurs, both inside and outside government, in the US policymaking process.

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This important book offers a clear analysis of how health insurance coverage for children became a national priority. Impressive.... Provides new evidence and insights that go beyond the existing literature on CHIP. [Offers] insight into the role of history, policy actors, interest groups, and political parties in the enacted CHIPP and its controversial reauthorization.... This is an important work.

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Alice Sardell is professor in the Department of Urban Studies at Queens College/CUNY, USA. Her previous book is The U.S. Experiment in Social Medicine: The Community Health Center Program, 1965–1986.

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