2007
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President Bush’s Second SCHIP Veto Sends America’s Children Disappointing Holiday Present
President Bush’s second veto of bi-partisan State Children’s Health Insurance Program legislation gave 9 million uninsured children a disappointing present this Holiday Season. The veto is a missed opportunity to ensure that 4 million more children have the health care coverage that they need. As the White House is aglow in the spirit of the…
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Tens of Thousands of Children at Risk of Losing SCHIP Coverage Due to Bush Administration’s Aug. 17 Directive
WASHINGTON — Thousands of uninsured children whose states planned to offer them coverage will instead continue to go without coverage as a result of the Bush administration’s Aug. 17 policy directive imposing new federal limits on State Children’s Health Insurance Programs (SCHIP), and tens of thousands of more children will be affected in the coming…
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Health Information Technology: Innovative Applications for Medicaid
Health information technology (HIT) is a key tool that both public and commercial insurers are employing to improve patient care and increase efficiency in the health care system. HIT can help measure quality, facilitate coordination of care, and help to bridge fragmented delivery systems and gaps in coverage. HIT can also help meet the needs…
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Medicaid Pilots at One Year: How Is the New Medicaid Marketplace Faring?
This issue brief provides an update on Florida’s Medicaid reform program that began enrollment in two pilot counties, Broward and Duval, in September 2006. In September 2007, changes were made to the program allowing health plans operating in the two counties to submit new benefit offerings. This issue brief reports on these changes, among other…
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Moving Backward: Status Report of August 17, 2007 Directive
On August 17, 2007, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued a directive, imposing new conditions on states that want to use federal funds to offer affordable coverage to children over 250 percent of the federal poverty level. This issue brief reviews the impact of the new rules on children’s coverage to date, finding…
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Stabilizing Medicaid Financing During Economic Downturns
Maintaining Medicaid coverage during downturns in the economic cycle is a significant policy challenge for states. In recessions, states struggle to finance the cost of Medicaid coverage, which increases as people lose jobs and the health coverage that comes with them, becoming eligible for Medicaid. At the same time, state revenues, mirror¬ing the weak economy,…
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Lawmakers at SCHIP Impasse While Funding Ends in Mid-November
Washington — Physician organizations expressed dismay and vowed to press forward after the House on Oct. 18 failed to override President Bush’s veto of a children’s health care bill. The American Medical Association will continue to work with lawmakers from both sides of the aisle to pass legislation reauthorizing the State Children’s Health Insurance Program,…
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Market-based Advocates Point to Florida Medicaid Reform
Kansas passed a bill last session implementing a premium assistance program, an idea touted for its reliance on the private insurance market — not the government — for health coverage. Ask Kansas legislators who want a more market-based approach to Medicaid, and they will point 1,000 miles away to Florida, a state that has enacted…
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Moving Forward? Reauthorization of SCHIP
Author: Cindy Mann 2007 Kids Count Conference — Presentation Document October 2007
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CHIPRA: Just the Facts, PLEASE
Author: Cindy Mann National Academy for State Health Policy — Presentation Document October 2007
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Families Face Harsh Reality: 2,000 Children Join the Uninsured Each Day
WASHINGTON — Every day another 2,000 children will join the ranks of the uninsured, adding to the 9 million uninsured children currently without private or public health insurance, according to new data released today by the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families. The new analysis, American Families Face Harsh Reality: 2,000 Children Join the…
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CCF Fact Sheet: $83,000 SCHIP Family Doesn’t Exist
The truth about who’s eligible for State Children’s Health Insurance Program coverage has become blurred in the debate to reauthorize SCHIP, with the mythical $83,000 SCHIP family making headlines. The misleading contention that SCHIP covers children at this income level leaves the false impression that SCHIP is a program that no longer focuses on lower…
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Blog: Poll Shows Overwhelming Support for Expanding SCHIP
A new poll conducted for National Public Radio, the Kaiser Family Foundation, and the Harvard School of Public Health shows that 70% of Americans support adding $35 billion to the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) over the next five years, although a smaller majority of 64% favor overriding President Bush’s veto of SCHIP legislation.…
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Children’s Health Bill Dispute Turns to Income Limits
New York Times October 16, 2007 WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 — It is the $83,000 question: Could children with that amount of family income qualify for subsidized health insurance under the bipartisan bill passed by Congress and vetoed by President Bush? When the House votes Thursday on whether to override the veto, Republicans will insist that…
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Coverage of Uninsured Children in Moderate-Income Families Under SCHIP
By Jocelyn Guyer To help inform the debate over the 2007 reauthorization of SCHIP, this issue brief provides new data on the extent to which low- to moderate-income children are currently enrolled in SCHIP. It shows that children with family income below 300 percent of the federal poverty level presently comprise 99.5 percent of those…
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American Families Face Harsh Reality: 2,000 Children Join the Ranks of Uninsured Each Day
This issue brief provides a portrait of uninsured children in America. It explains that after years of success in providing coverage to more of America’s uninsured children, Census Bureau data show that in 2006 the number of uninsured children increased for the second year in a row. If those trends continue, it is estimated that…
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The Growing Health Insurance Affordability Gap for Children and Families
This issue brief presents data showing the role that flexibility in the SCHIP program has played in allowing states to address the growing gap in health insurance affordability among the nation’s children. It focuses on the increasing costs to families of securing health coverage, both in terms of the absolute costs and as a proportion…
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Public/Private Coverage in SCHIP Reauthorization: Premium Assistance and Other Issues
Author: Joan Alker American Academy of Pediatrics, Committee on Federal Government Affairs — Presentation Document September 2007
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CCF Reviews Contents of SCHIP Reauthorization Bill
WASHINGTON — The compromise legislation on the reauthorization of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program approved by Congress would set SCHIP on a solid path over the next 10 years, according to an analysis released today by the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families. The legislation would allow states to continue their efforts to…