Insuring Childrens Health : : Contentious Politics and Public Policy / / Alice Sardell.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Sardell, Alice,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (183 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; 1 Policy Frameworks and Children’s Health --; 2 The Emergence of the Child Health Advocacy Community --; 3 Policy Legacies and Political Entrepreneurs: Enacting Children’s Health Insurance --; 4 Ideological Conflict over a “Bipartisan” Program --; 5 Expanding the Program: Advocacy and Framing --; 6 The State of Children’s Health --; List of Acronyms --; References --; Index --; About the Book
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781626373662; 9783110784244
• DOI: 10.1515/9781626373662
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Alice Sardell.

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.