2012
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A Question of Priorities
By Martha Heberlein As the Energy and Commerce Committee searches for options to save the Department of Defense from cuts, coverage for millions of children, parents, pregnant women, the elderly, and people with disabilities could end up on the chopping block. This is just one of a number of distressing offsets that also includes repealing…
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Medicaid Enrollment Slows While State Revenues Steadily Increase
By Tara Mancini It’s true of most states that Medicaid enrollment has slowed and state revenues are steadily increasing. Yet, as governor’s prepared their budgets for fiscal year 2013, enough uncertainty lingered that when budgeting for Medicaid, there continued to be a focus on cost containment. Key findings from the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and…
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A Question of Priorities
By Martha Heberlein As the Energy and Commerce Committee searches for options to save the Department of Defense from cuts, coverage for millions of children, parents, pregnant women, the elderly, and people with disabilities could end up on the chopping block. This is just one of a number of distressing offsets that also includes repealing exchange…
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CHIP: Legislation, Regulation and Guidance
Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families conducts research and provides recommendations on the most promising ways to to protect and improve children’s coverage, the important role CHIP plays in the coverage landscape, and the best ways to sustain and build upon the program’s successes.
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Health Disparities Persist Among Children: Opportunities for the ACA
By Tara Mancini While Minority Health Month draws to a close this week, the just released “National Healthcare Disparities Report,” from the Agency for Health Care Quality illustrates the urgency for dedicating more attention to the issue. Mandated by Congress, the 2011 report is the ninth to be issued. Overall, the report finds that access…
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Supporting Families Who Do the Right Thing by Covering Their Kids
By Barbara Munoz, Voices for Utah Children I have had the great privilege over the last several weeks of interviewing families throughout the state of Utah who have benefited from CHIP or Medicaid. There really is no better way of advocating for children’s health than through the telling of personal stories of real families affected…
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Block Grants – Success or Failure? You Be the Judge
By Jocelyn Guyer Whether you view something as a success or failure often depends upon which side of the field you are standing. On one side of the block-granting field, we have low-income families who lost the helping hand they needed during tough economic times as the block-granted TANF program failed to respond to the…
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Implementing Health Reform for Vulnerable Children
Funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, this project will uncover specific challenges and policy strategies to ensure children in state-sponsored systems (e.g. child welfare, juvenile justice) or at risk of entering these systems have a strong path to health care as the Affordable Care Act is implemented. Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families…
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KidsWell
The KidsWell campaign focuses on successful health care reform implementation on behalf of children, with the following goals: Ensure successful implementation of health care reform for children; Maximize enrollment for children currently eligible for coverage; and Build a lasting child advocacy infrastructure for children’s health. Funded by Atlantic Philanthropies, the project employs a multi-prong strategy…
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Exciting News from Wisconsin – For Kids Nationwide
By Jon Peacock, Wisconsin Council on Children and Families It hasn’t gotten much attention yet, but at an April 11 meeting in Madison, Secretary Sebelius delivered some great news for children in Wisconsin and across the nation. Following a small meeting about benefits of the health care reform law for women, Sebelius met with a few…
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Video Advocacy – It’s Easier than it Looks
By Adam Searing, North Carolina Justice Center Recently my colleague Adam Linker and I had the opportunity from our friends here at the Georgetown Center for Children and Families and Atlantic Philanthropies to leave the North Carolina Justice Center and travel to other state capitols around the country. Packing our bags and braving airport…
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Keep Calm and Carry On
If you were anything like me during the Supreme Court oral arguments on the Affordable Care Act, you jumped every time a news alert came over your email, and then audibly groaned as you read missives such as: “THE ACA IS DOOMED! 9 OUT OF 10 LEGAL SCHOLARS AGREE!” Amazing how conventional wisdom can change…
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Arizona to Open Coverage for More Kids
By Martha Heberlein Health coverage may now be an option for almost 22,000 children currently on the waiting list for CHIP (aka KidsCare) in Arizona under an 1115 waiver amendment approved on April 6th by CMS. The state had been negotiating to establish additional funding streams for uncompensated care payments to certain hospitals and Indian health…
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Data Helps Lead the Way to Reaching Uninsured Children
By Anna Strong, Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families recently published an update on our state’s efforts to ensure that all children have health coverage. The best news in “Crossing the Finish Line: Cutting the Red Tape in 2011” is that, despite a recession and an increasing child poverty…
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Wyoming Medicaid & CHIP Programs
Wyoming Medicaid and CHIP Programs Source: Modern Era Medicaid: Findings from a 50-State Survey of Eligibility, Enrollment, Renewal, and Cost-Sharing Policies in Medicaid and CHIP as of January 2015. Note: Tables below present rules in effect as of January 1, 2015. Adult Income Eligibility Limits[1],[2] Parents (in a family of three) Other Adults Section…
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Wisconsin Medicaid & CHIP Programs
Wisconsin Medicaid and CHIP Programs Source: Modern Era Medicaid: Findings from a 50-State Survey of Eligibility, Enrollment, Renewal, and Cost-Sharing Policies in Medicaid and CHIP as of January 2015. Note: Tables below present rules in effect as of January 1, 2015. Adult Income Eligibility Limits[1],[2],[3] Parents (in a family of three) Other Adults Section…
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West Virginia Medicaid & CHIP Programs
West Virginia Medicaid and CHIP Programs Source: Modern Era Medicaid: Findings from a 50-State Survey of Eligibility, Enrollment, Renewal, and Cost-Sharing Policies in Medicaid and CHIP as of January 2015. Note: Tables below present rules in effect as of January 1, 2015. Adult Income Eligibility Limits[1],[2] Parents (in a family of three) Other Adults…
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Washington Medicaid & CHIP Programs
Washington Medicaid and CHIP Programs Source: Modern Era Medicaid: Findings from a 50-State Survey of Eligibility, Enrollment, Renewal, and Cost-Sharing Policies in Medicaid and CHIP as of January 2015. Note: Tables below present rules in effect as of January 1, 2015. Adult Income Eligibility Limits[1],[2] Parents (in a family of three) Other Adults Section…
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Virginia Medicaid & CHIP Programs
Virginia Medicaid and CHIP Programs Source: Modern Era Medicaid: Findings from a 50-State Survey of Eligibility, Enrollment, Renewal, and Cost-Sharing Policies in Medicaid and CHIP as of January 2015. Note: Tables below present rules in effect as of January 1, 2015. Adult Income Eligibility Limits[1],[2] Parents (in a family of three) Other Adults Section…
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Vermont Medicaid & CHIP Programs
Vermont Medicaid and CHIP Programs Source: Modern Era Medicaid: Findings from a 50-State Survey of Eligibility, Enrollment, Renewal, and Cost-Sharing Policies in Medicaid and CHIP as of January 2015. Note: Tables below present rules in effect as of January 1, 2015. Adult Income Eligibility Limits[1],[2],[3] Parents (in a family of three) Other Adults Section…
