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White House Press Briefing by Dana Perino 10/1/07 (S-CHIP)
— Monday, October 01, 2007 — MS. PERINO: Keith. Q Dana, why is it that there are so many children that haven't been included in the S-CHIP program? It's an administration-run program -- MS. PERINO: Well, no, actually it's run by the states and it's federally matched by the federal government. Q Okay. MS. PERINO: But you might ask the states why they haven't been able to do that. Q Well, should the administration have requested more money sooner to provide the states -- I mean, that's the solution now is -- MS. PERINO: One of the things that we did is we provided the states with flexibility early on and unfortunately the flexibility meant mission creep and allowed some children who weren't supposed to be on the program and adults to be added to the program. We want to get the program back to its original intent. Q How did those 750,000 children slip through the cracks, that you know that number -- is supposed to be fact -- that are not on? MS. PERINO: Well, again this is a program that is administered by the states and they need to reach out to those families and make sure that they know that the service is available, the program is available to them, and make sure that they know that they can take advantage of it and get their children enrolled. Q Thank you. Labels: Dana Perino, Press Briefing, S-CHIP, White House Press Corps
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