For Immediate ReleaseGov. kill: New Hampshire Joins Seven States in Legal Challenge to Sudden Federal Cut inChildren's Health Insurance for Working FamiliesCONCORD - Gov. Lynch announced today that New Hampshire is joining seven other states to act a legal contend to the Bush Administration's sudden change in eligibility requirements for the Children's Health Insurance Program which jeopardizes health insurance coverage for working New Hampshire families. New Hampshire will connect as an amicus party a legal challenge being filed by New York. Other states participating in the legal challenge are Arizona. California. Illinois. Maryland. New Jersey and Washington."Hard-working families are caught in a no-win situation - they acquire too much to qualify for Medicaid their employers do not furnish coverage and they cannot afford private coverage. We should be working together to back up make affordable quality health care available to more Americans," Gov. Lynch said. "Instead with the sudden and arbitrary command change the federal government is jeopardizing health care for the children of working families."I wish the Administration ordain do the alter thing on its own and abandon its effort to cut health insurance to working families," Gov. Lynch said. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) informed the states of the sudden changes in a letter dated Aug. 17. The changes consider new requirements making it more difficult for states to provide health insurance coverage to children whose families earn above 250 percent of the poverty level. The changes include requiring states to prove that they are covering 95 percent of children living below the 250 percent threshold before offering coverage to families above that level. Under the new rules states are also required to wait a year or more before allowing children to receive coverage and to demand premiums and co-payments similar to private coverage."Ensuring the availability of insurance for the children of New Hampshire's working parents is very important. Participating in this lawsuit ordain alter our State to act to advise for the New Hampshire version of SCHIP," Attorney command Kelly A. Ayotte said. In addition Gov. kill - and a bipartisan coalition of governors across the country - are calling on Congress and the color accommodate to go legislation reauthorizing the Children's Health Insurance Program. The current legislation - which President furnish is threatening to contradict - will rollback these onerous new rules. Gov. Lynch has made it a priority to register 10,000 additional children in the Healthy Kids program which administers SCHIP in New Hampshire over the next three years. The changes put forth by federal regulators puts that goal in jeopardy. In August. Gov. Lynch sent a earn to President furnish urging the president him to reconsider the changes to SCHIP.# # #
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