She said the program would cost $14 million and serve 2,600 students in its first year.
The programs now serve around 46 million children, at least on paper.
The program will serve 150 families over a two year period.
In 1990, the program served 955 children at an average of $14,993 a child.
This last year, the program served about 100 families each day.
In 1995, the programs served 70,030 people, a 20 percent increase from the previous year.
Currently these programs serve more than 1 million patients and their families each year.
The program, started in 1973 on a small scale, has now served more than 1,500 families.
A program serving 118 children, she said, should have about three people running it.
And they say their programs can serve more children at a lower cost than Medicare.