Congress established the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) in 1997. Proponents argued that CHIP would deliver health insurance coverage to half the nation’s 10 million uninsured children by 2000. Through Federal FY 2005, however, the program had never enrolled even 4 million children at any given time.
Harris County is Creating a Culture of Dependency
Famed free-market economist Thomas Sowell once remarked that “Although the big word on the left is ‘compassion,’ the big agenda on the left is dependency.” Sowell’s insight is not only correct, but it’s also a fitting lens through which to view Harris County’s new guaranteed income pilot program, Uplift Harris. To start, Uplift Harris is...