Our children hold the promise of our future, it is upon them that we have bestowed all of our generation’s dreams, hopes and aspirations. So then, we should ask ourselves why our government is making it that much more difficult to ensure their health stays intact through the State Children’s Health Insurance program, which was instated in 1997.

 The idea was to provide lower income family’s children with the healthcare benefits at decreased costs.  Then, in a bid to further improve the state of children’s healthcare in the United States, the maximum income requirement was increased. Such a move was made so as to allow families that would essentially be considered able to purchase private healthcare, according to the government statistics and analyses, but due to extenuating circumstances found doing so beyond their means, access to healthcare for their children. However, the Bush administration is rejecting the programs suggestion to increase income requirements due to the fact that in doing so, families that do have the income to attain privatized healthcare may refrain from doing so simply in order to get the same quality health insurance at lowered costs. The purpose of the program was to ascertain that the children who were truly in need would finally have the ability to acquire quality and low cost health insurance, thus, Bush has made a compromise on the matter. In order for families of 4 individuals making approximately $55,000 a year to qualify for the program, the state in which they reside must have met 95% of the low-income families’ needs. But, critics fear that while it may be masquerading as a “compromise� it is merely a means to reject the increase and prevent families in need of acquiring health insurance for their children.