2009
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Pay Attention to Children in Health Reform!
Kay Johnson Kay Johnson has been a leader in child health policy for 25 years. She is a Research Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Dartmouth Medical School and a Lecturer in Health Policy at the George Washington University. She also is president of Johnson Group Consulting. With passage of CHIPRA, federal policymakers may be tempted…
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Needs of Children Important to Reform, Too Many Without Coverage, Report Says
BNA May 30, 2009 The needs of children must be an important component of health reform efforts, according to a report released May 29 by the Center for Children and Families. Despite gains in insurance for children, many still do not have coverage or suffer from gaps in their care, according to the report, The…
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Georgetown Center for Children and Families Releases Blueprint for Addressing the Needs of Children in Health Reform
Washington, D.C. — Children have unique health needs that should be addressed in health reform, according to a new report by the Center for Children and Families at Georgetown University’s Health Policy Institute. “Almost nine million children are uninsured and many more are at risk of not receiving the health care services that they need…
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CCF Director Mann Appointed by Obama Administration to Direct Medicaid and CHIP, Deputy Directors Alker, Guyer to Co-Direct CCF
Washington, D.C. – Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius announced today that Georgetown University Center for Children and Families Director Cindy Mann has been appointed Director of the Center for Medicaid and State Operations at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (CMSO). CMSO oversees Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program…
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Change
Last November, excitement over the prospects for real change swept a new President into office and gave hope to many who had long since lost hope that things could get better and that government could do good. We all have our own criteria for what constitutes “real” or “good” change, but whatever change may mean,…
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The Last Piece of the Puzzle: What do Children Need from Health Reform?
You can’t pick up a paper (some of us do still read them) or read a blog today without hearing about health reform. In fact, you have read on our blog about the flurry of activity on the Hill. The good news is that no longer is the argument focused on whether health reform is…
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Children’s Issues and Effortless Enrollment are Building Momentum in Health Reform
By Jocelyn Guyer The Center for Children and Families staff is scurrying as fast as a NASCAR pit crew as two of our top issues are building momentum. We are participating in back-to-back Capitol Hill forums on addressing children’s unique health needs in health reform and removing bureaucratic hurdles to enrollment in Medicaid and CHIP.…
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When will public health insurance programs catch up with the rest of the online world?
If technology were not so prolific, there would be no reason to write this blog. My kids grew up using computers and cannot remember a time when technology was not a focal point of everyday life. From researching homework (or health policy) to balancing your checkbook and paying bills, from shopping for hard-to-find sizes to…
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Medicaid is as Essential to Health Reform as a Pair of Blue Jeans is to Your Wardrobe – Exchanges Can’t Work Well Without It
Shopping at the mall is never a favorite pastime of mine but it does provide some comic relief to what I see happening in health reform. As I watch teenagers frantically searching for the latest fashion trend, I am reminded that this tendency to grab onto the latest and greatest new fad is at play…
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Effortless Enrollment Saves Taxpayers $ and Helps Uninsured Children Access Medicaid and CHIP
Robert Nelb, MPH Candidate 2009, Yale University, Senior Fellow, The Roosevelt Institution As readers of this blog know, we became fans of Nelb’s work when we came across a letter-to-the-editor he wrote regarding pointless paperwork. Robert is a senior fellow for The Roosevelt Institution and the winner of the Brookings Institution’s Hamilton Project Economic Policy…
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Flurry of Activity On Health Reform Front Continues
By Jocelyn Guyer When my third child was born just 20 months after our twins, I was briefly the mom of three kids under the age of two. Not as tough as the challenge facing Jon and Kate plus Eight or the octuplet mom, but enough to make me think that my life would never…
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Making CHIPRA Work: Enrolling Eligible Children in Health Coverage
Author: Tricia Brooks Council of State Governments – Presentation Document May 2009
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The Last Piece of the Puzzle
By Jocelyn Guyer Center for American Progress — Presentation Document May 2009
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North Carolina Community Care Saves $ and Improves Access – Isn’t That the Kind of Health Reform We All Need?
Amidst all the talk this week in Washington about reforming our nation’ s health care system, a new report highlighting a great model for reform went largely unnoticed. North Carolina’s Medicaid initiative “Community Care” has made great progress in providing better access to care and saving money to boot!! Yet one of the options the…
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Not Working: Medicaid Contracts
How many reports does it take for West Virginia to realize that its 2-year-old Medicaid “fix” is broken? The most recent study is from the Institute for Health Policy Research at West Virginia University. Researchers found that tens of thousands of the neediest West Virginians are getting less medical care than they did before the…
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Mostly Good News for Children in Senate Finance Committee’s Health Reform Proposal
By Jocelyn Guyer Yesterday, the Senate Finance Committee released a set of health reform coverage options, offering some important insight into the direction this crucial committee may take as it tackles the goal of covering all Americans. It’s hard to sum up the 61-page document — not only does it cover a lot of terrain but there are options…
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Fact Sheet on Senate Finance Committee’s Coverage Options paper
This fact sheet provides a review of the key provisions affecting children, families and low-income people.
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Can We Afford to Leave Children’s Issues on the Sidelines of the Health Reform Debate?
Aimee Ossman, Director of Medicaid and State Policy Analysis, National Association of Children’s Hospitals As our national leaders debate health care reform, there must be a focus on children. The Senate Finance Committee has held two roundtable discussions highlighting the delivery of health care and coverage. In both of these roundtables there was a lot…
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Bipartisan Effort Delivers Needed Health Care for Kansas Kids
Suzanne Wikle, Director of Health Policy, Kansas Action for Children Last week, Liz Arjun blogged about the fact that CHIPRA has encouraged many states to move forward on health coverage for children despite achallenging budgetary climates. We took a look at Colorado’s expansion in a guest blog entry last week. This week, we want to…
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CHIP Tips: Citizenship Documentation Changes
The CHIP law enacted in 2009 includes a number of important program and financing changes that affect both Medicaid and CHIP. One important change is that CHIPRA extends the requirement to document citizenship that applies in Medicaid to CHIP as well. At the same time, the new law modifies current requirements to reduce the paperwork…