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Originally Posted by aceventura3
Not everyone may go from an employer-funded program, or other pooled program? For example there are millions of small business owners who purchase their own individual policies. Individual (family) heath insurance is a pretty big business.
P.S. - I guess I should not be surprised - people in Washington often overlook small business owners or people who don't work for large .
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The problem is that most small business do not offer health benefits to employees. Many of these employees are the lower and middle income working families who would otherwise have to purchase family health insurance on their own, which costs about $10,000-12,000/year (for a family of four), a hefty amount for a family with income in the 30s and 40s.
These are the children intended to be covered by SCHIPs.