(August 12, 2008)--Texas health officials didn't request much new money in the upcoming state budget to help cover children of working-poor families and in fact officials with the Children's Health Insurance Program predict the program will barely grow.
Advocates for low-income families, however, are skeptical.
CHIP enrollment reached nearly 477,000 this month compared to 300,000 one year ago, after lawmakers approved an expansion.
Health and Human Services Commission researchers expect enrollment to average between 480,000 and 486,000 in each of the next three years.
CHIP spent $921 million in the last two-year budget cycle and is on target to cost $2.1 billion in this cycle.
Officials expect costs to rise to $2.5 billion in the next two-year cycle.
Of that, state funds would make up about $700 million, up from $600 million in the current period.
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