WASHINGTON—A Center for Children and Families study released today in the March/April issue of Health Affairs shows Medicaid’s central role in
reducing the uninsurance rate for children.
Between 1997 and 2005, children’s uninsurance rate dropped from 22.3 percent to 14.9 percent. Although SCHIP alone often is cited as the reason for these improvements, new CCF research presented in the Health Affairs article, Medicaid at the Ten-Year Anniversary of SCHIP: Looking Back and Moving Forward, highlights that the two programs have worked together to generate this success story, with Medicaid driving nearly 70 percent of the gains.
