On February 4, President Obama signed legislation expanding S-CHIP, or State Children’s Health Insurance Program, by $35 billion, which includes about 4 million kids. 

What this will mean for your family is that if you are middle class and don’t have health insurance– a situation more and more families find themselves in–it might be possible for you to get coverage at least for your kids.  Even if you’ve been turned down before because you fall on that cusp (you make too little to make it without help, but too much to get any help), you should consider reapplying, because this money goes to the states to cover the cost of healthcare for more kids than before.

That might be good news for many families, considering that health care for our kids is an urgent priority for most of us.  Nothing’s free, though, so we’ll wait to see what we pay for this in terms of taxes in the near future.

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