The Wall Street Journal’s Washington Wire reports that the effort to put more people on the government dole via the State Children’s Health Insurance Program also entailed changing the name of the program.

The program has always been called the “State Children’s Health Insurance Program,” but the acronym CHIP was always catchier and most Democrats and Republicans used it initially. Occasionally, there were references to SCHIP or even CHIPS — and there were jokes about making sure Chip Kahn, then a House aide and now the head of a hospital trade association didn’t think the bill was about him.

The program was called SCHIP and is now called CHIP. Considering that we’re already paying for 670,000 adults with the program and that will only keep going up, we may as well also strike the C from the name.