Galveston County Daily News July 11, 2007 Column by Heber Taylor Enrollment in Children's Health Insurance Program, the state's low-cost insurance plan for children, was up in July. About 302,000 kids are now covered. That's an increase of about 1,500 from the previous month. That's good news. The bad news is that 529,211 kids were covered in May 2002 before the state took a series of ill-advised steps in the name of fiscal responsibility. ... What happened to those uninsured kids? Does anyone imagine they stopped getting chickenpox and sore throats because they were dropped from the insurance program? A lot of those kids ended up in the county's health clinics and at the University of Texas Medical Branch emergency room.