Judd Gregg: “The Cornyn amendment tries to focus SCHIP on kids. That is what it should be focused on. The problem we have today is…”

“The Cornyn amendment tries to focus SCHIP on kids. That is what it should be focused on. The problem we have today is that SCHIP is being used as a stalking-horse to basically ensure all sorts of people who do not qualify in the concept of kids at 200 percent of poverty. You have three States where they actually spend more SCHIP money on adults than they do on children. You have 12 States that are spending almost $1 billion annually of SCHIP money on adults. You have nine States where they are covering up to 300 percent of poverty. You have other States where you are going up to $68,000 of personal income and still qualifying people for SCHIP. That is not the way SCHIP is supposed to be structured. SCHIP is supposed to be structured for kids.”