The Washington Post, September 28, 1997:

New York state [has launched] an ambitious initiative that has rescued 160,000 children from the ranks of the [medically] uninsured....

As lawmakers have added money each year, an opposite problem has emerged: The program can't find enough children to use up the money.

From the beginning, the state had hired outside workers to ferret out children—an effort that the new federal program also encourages. But many believe those workers did not look hard enough....

State health officials now are working on a new way to guide families into the program.

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