The Department of Corrections is providing applications to all families supervised by probation and parole officers. The program is working with schools to ensure they enroll children in Healthy Kids Gold or Silver when the sign them up for free or reduced lunch, and working with hospitals to ensure that information about the program is given to the families of uninsured children when they show up at the emergency room. New Hampshire consistently ranks as one of the best places in the country to raise a child. Compared with other states, it has fewer children living in poverty, more immunized children and a lower rate of teenage pregnancies. We've created over 50,000 jobs in three years.
Unemployment is down.
New Hampshire also already has one of highest rates of insured children and adults in the nation. But every family deserves that security. No parent should have to worry about how they are going to pay to take a sick child to the doctor. That's why in the next three years, we will enroll 9,000 more children in the Children's Health Insurance Program. The comprehensive benefit plan offered by Healthy Kids includes hospital services, doctor visits, prescription drugs, mental health services, dental services, physical therapy and emergency care.