'In Good Shape' -- Children in Coverkids Program Will Stay Insured

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When Barbara Mackey's sister sent her an e-mail earlier this year about Tennessee's new CoverKids health insurance program, she jumped at the chance to enroll two of her children, who were uninsured and disliked one of the home remedies she used to keep them from having to seek medical care.

CoverKids depends on the State Children's Health Insurance Program, whose funding levels are the subject of heated debate in Washington. But luckily for the Mackey family, CoverKids is sitting on cash resources that will keep the program solvent well into 2009 no matter what Congress does.

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'In Good Shape' -- Children in Coverkids Program Will Stay Insured

"We're going to be in good shape for a couple of years," said Dean Flener, a spokesman for the program.

And with an estimated 127,000 uninsur...

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