The Clinton Administration, for example, has proposed insuring children in families that are temporarily out of work.

Since the first of the year no insurance company will insure children alone in Kansas.

But some problems, such as insuring children, are getting more attention than others.

Among other things, it would, expand an existing government program to insure children by loosening eligibility requirements and giving poor adults similar benefits.

Another is that insuring children is much cheaper than insuring adults.

Instead, Washington agreed to dispense $24 billion in block grants to help the states insure children.

The federal government pays from 65 percent to 84 percent of the costs of state programs to insure low-income children.

That insures children and a next generation.

These include insuring and educating children, moving people from welfare to work and providing food stamps.

The statewide program began in 1991 with federal money for insuring impoverished children.