HoustonChronicle.com - 54,000 children dropped off insurance rolls

"The Center [for Public Policy Priorities ] said that 49,000 of the children who would have been enrolled in CHIP are not enrolled because of policy changes that took effect in September.

Among the changes are a three-month waiting period for enrollment, the inability to deduct child care and child support payments in calculating income and a requirement to recertify twice a year instead of once. "

Bubbas don't leave a child behind -- they just drop him from the list.