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Sep 30, 2026
Dan MendelsonGUEST
I mean, we passed the Balanced Budget Act.
Dan MendelsonGUEST
We had the Children's Health Insurance Program.
Dan MendelsonGUEST
During that time, we insured about 10 million children, low-income children.
Dan MendelsonGUEST
And that was a lot of people who didn't have insurance, a lot of kids who didn't have insurance who... who then had insurance.
Jamie BourgeoisHOST
So that's where a lot of these changes are taking place.
Jamie BourgeoisHOST
And it also is going to have changes to CHIP, which is the Children's Health Insurance Program.
Jamie BourgeoisHOST
Changes to rural health.
Jamie BourgeoisHOST
SNAP benefits is also rolled into this.
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Jamie BourgeoisHOST
Yeah.
Jamie BourgeoisHOST
And, you know, the same can be said with kids.
Jamie BourgeoisHOST
So CHIP, the Children's Health Insurance Plan, that wasn't cut.
Jamie BourgeoisHOST
But we have known for, you know, 20 years that when a parent loses coverage, children's enrollment decreases.
Charles C. W. CookePANELIST
He doesn't nationalize the healthcare system.
Charles C. W. CookePANELIST
He doesn't have any views on Medicare or Medicaid or the Children's Health Insurance Program.
Charles C. W. CookePANELIST
He expresses no preference for Britain's National Health Service over Germany's hybrid system.
Charles C. W. CookePANELIST
Jesus heals the sick in a series of miracles.
Matt HarabHOST
Coleman, who represented much of Interloop Houston in the Texas Legislature as a Democrat, had an outsized impact on state healthcare programs and the University of Houston, as our Andrew Schneider explains.
Andrew SchneiderCORRESPONDENT
Coleman was a pivotal figure in passing legislation to create Texas Children's Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program, or CHIP.
Andrew SchneiderCORRESPONDENT
State Representative Armando Walle, who called him a close friend and mentor, says Coleman also took the lead on getting funding to fight HIV and AIDS.
Armando WalleSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Families who were suffering through the AIDS crisis in the '80s and '90s, he was a champion for them and for them to get treatment, so people's lives were saved because of his tenacity and doggedness to fight for the least, the last, and the lost.
Scott BraddockHOST
Texas is better because of you.
Scott BraddockHOST
One of the accomplishments that I would like to mention is that he wrote the legislation to create the Children's Health Insurance Program, and what that is is when kids are not quote-unquote poor enough to be on Medicaid, but their parents don't have enough money to get them on private insurance, it's kind of a thing that fills in the gap in between.
Scott BraddockHOST
And I remember...
Scott BraddockHOST
When some people took aim at that legislation, this was kind of a joint thing with the federal government.
Laura RiceHOST
Houston Public Media's Andrew Schneider reports he had an outsized impact on state health care programs and the University of Houston.
Andrew SchneiderCORRESPONDENT
Coleman was a pivotal figure in passing legislation to create Texas Children's Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program, or CHIP.
Andrew SchneiderCORRESPONDENT
State Representative Armando Wally, who called him a close friend and mentor, says Coleman also took the lead on getting funding to fight HIV and AIDS.
Armando WallySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Families who were suffering through the AIDS crisis in the 80s and 90s.
James ParkerHOST
Really? The spending just went up, and we're spending $1.2 trillion a year on poverty programs.
James ParkerHOST
That's starving them? But most of that is, uh, Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program.
James ParkerHOST
It's, it's the same thing, but just for children.
James ParkerHOST
We're up to almost $700 billion are spending on just Medicaid, healthcare for poor people.
Rob LaushesHOST
State Representative Jolanda Jones now serves in his seat.
Rob LaushesHOST
His family stated in the press release, "...across more than three decades in the Texas House, he worked to expand access to health care, strengthen mental health services, advance criminal justice reform, and invest in the communities and institutions he served." His family and former colleagues particularly emphasized his legislative focus on medical-related issues, as seen in his authorship of the Children's Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program in Texas in 1999, and his role during four legislative sessions as the chief writer of the Health and Human Services portion of the state budget.
Rob LaushesHOST
In other news, all of Texas prison facilities must install air conditioning by 2029 as the current conditions are cruel and unusual per a ruling this week after three years of related litigation and about four months ahead of the 90th legislative session.
Rob LaushesHOST
The order, issued by U.S. District Judge Robert Pittman of the Western District of Texas on Tuesday, found that the current state of correctional facilities in Texas is in violation of the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits cruel and unusual punishments.
Michael BurgessGUEST
And again, policymakers need to pay attention.
Michael BurgessGUEST
When I look back on my, my terms in Congress, I, I'm very proud of some of the things that we were able to accomplish, uh, One of the big accomplishments was reauthorizing the Children's Health Insurance Program for 10 years.
Michael BurgessGUEST
Now, that reauthorization is going to be up in three years' time, so I am looking forward to members of both parties focusing on that and ensuring that the availability of children's health insurance remember that was a republican idea in 1996 it was a compromise between orrin hatch and bill clinton and newt gingrich in order to get the welfare reform passed you had to be able to get uh mom's uh had to be comfortable with coming off of Medicaid and knowing that their children would still be covered, and the Children's Health Insurance Program is what allowed that to happen.
Michael BurgessGUEST
So the Children's Health Insurance Program was important in 1996, and I would just argue it continues to be important now.
Michael BurgessGUEST
But that is unfortunately not one of the things that people talk about, doesn't come first to mind when you're talking about a political year, but it is going to make a difference, and policymakers do need to be attuned to that.
Michael BurgessGUEST
just more broadly on the whole issue of vaccine coverage.
Gail DelaughterHOST
News 887 government reporter Andrew Schnatter says a longtime Houston lawmaker was instrumental in major health care legislation.
Andrew SchneiderCORRESPONDENT
Coleman was a pivotal figure in passing legislation to create Texas Children's Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program, or CHIP.
Andrew SchneiderCORRESPONDENT
State Representative Armando Wally, who called him a close friend and mentor, says Coleman also took the lead on getting funding to fight HIV and AIDS.
Armando WalleSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Families who were suffering through the AIDS crisis in the 80s and 90s, he was a champion for them and for them to get treatment.
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