Congress established the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) in 1997, in response to mounting pressure to address the number of uninsured children in the United States. Proponents of the plan argued that CHIP would deliver health insurance coverage to half of the nation’s 10 million uninsured children by 2000. Through federal FY 2005, however, the CHIP program had never reached enrollment of even 4 million children at any given time.
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TrumpRx is a Game-Changer, Texas Can Go Even Further
President Trump’s TrumpRx initiative is a game-changer in the fight to lower prescription drug prices for everyday Americans. For far too long, prescription medication costs have been obscenely high, not because of the true cost of research and manufacturing, but because of a tangled web of insurance plans, middlemen, and opaque price-setting that enriches gatekeepers...
February 6, 2026