2017
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Event To Recognize ARKids First Start
Arkansas Online Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families partnered with The Clinton School of Public Service to celebrate the 20th anniversary of ARKids First, in an event that will discuss the history and benefits from children’s health program, with the help of health experts, including CCF’s. … There will be a discussion about the history…
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House GOP Medicaid Provisions Would Cut Federal Medicaid Spending by $560 Billion Over Next Decade
By Edwin Park, CBPP The House Republican health plan would shift an estimated $560 billion in Medicaid costs to states over the next ten years, effectively ending the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) Medicaid expansion for 11 million people while also harming tens of millions of additional seniors, people with disabilities, and children and parents who rely on…
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New CCF Fact Sheet Shows Medicaid Provides Needed Access to Health Care for Families
Our new fact sheet summarizes research on access to care in Medicaid. We find that children and parents who rely on Medicaid for health care receive coverage that is comparable to private insurance and far better than the access accorded uninsured families. Children covered by Medicaid and those with private insurance access health care services…
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Medicaid Fact Sheets
Snapshot of Children’s Coverage by Race and Ethnicity: Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) are primary sources of health coverage for children. These programs are particularly important to children of color, who are disproportionately represented among beneficiaries because they are more likely to be economically disadvantaged. How Restructuring Medicaid Could Affect Children: More…
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Medicaid Provides Needed Access to Care for Children and Families
Research shows that children and parents who rely on Medicaid for health care receive coverage that is comparable to private insurance and far better than the access accorded uninsured families. Children covered by Medicaid and those with private insurance access health care services across a variety of measures at comparable rates, while children who are…
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Arizona Medicaid Waiver Amendment Does Not Include Analysis of Impact on Budget and Individuals
Arizona will shortly be submitting an amendment to its existing Section 1115 waiver that includes some very major and unprecedented changes to its Medicaid expansion such as the imposition of a work requirement (which has to be verified on a monthly basis!), and a five-year life- time limit on Medicaid benefits. The state also seeks…
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Healthcare Overhaul’s Impact Could Reach Deep Into Schools
Education Dive By: Tara García Mathewson The new administration will repeal the Affordable Care Act. This action, however, will affect different operations and schools, and may retrocede the progress that had been made between 2013 and 2015 in providing healthcare coverage to 95.2% of children nationwide. … The portion of children without health insurance dropped…
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7 Questions Congress Should Answer Before Messing with Medicaid
Ok, all you Schoolhouse Rock fans, let’s sing along: “I’m just a Bill. Yes, I’m only a Bill. And I’m sitting here on Capitol Hill. Well, it’s a long, long journey to the Capital City It’s a long, long wait while I’m sitting in committee.” That was true in 1976, when Bill made his debut.…
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Education Week By: Alyson Klein Once the Affordable Care Act is revamped, there will probably be serious implications regarding the student mental-health services and even hiring substitute teachers. Even though the President vowed to make sure his new plan gets healthcare coverage to everyone, that goal seems impossible without the implementation of the ACA. ……
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Top Five Ways ACA Repeal and Medicaid Financing Changes Would Harm our Youngest Children
Editor’s note: We at Say Ahhh! are getting a lot of traction around our “top 5s” on Medicaid cuts and the impact of ACA repeal and Medicaid financing changes on child welfare. So we thought we should continue the trend and focus on young children. We are grateful our colleagues at CLASP agreed to join…
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Don’t Throw Children Under the School Bus: Medicaid Is a Smart Investment in Our Nation’s Children
Real Clear Health By: Joan Alker Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families’ executive director, Joan Alker, talks about the new report that CCF is working on – covering the research on how Medicaid coverage has been leading and will continue leading to healthier and longer lives, further educational attainment, and more beneficial futures overall.…
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CHIR Expert Testifies Before the House Committee on Small Business Regarding Enhancements to the ACA
By Emily Curran and Dania Palanker, originally posted on CHIRblog On February 7, the House Committee on Small Business held a hearing titled, “Reimagining the Health Care Marketplace for America’s Small Businesses,” to discuss the challenges small businesses are facing in the health insurance marketplaces and to offer potential solutions for the next phase of…
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Nation’s Success in Covering Children is in Peril
House Republicans recently released an outline of their plans to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act and today an earlier version of the bill they were drafting was leaked. While the leaked bill is likely an old draft, both of these documents confirm what I have suspected was coming — while repealing and replacing…
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Radically Restructuring Medicaid Would be Bad for Kids
While most press coverage has focused on repealing the Affordable Care Act and scaling back the Medicaid expansion for adults, a less well-known but extremely damaging effort under consideration by Congress would radically restructure Medicaid financing. Proposals would do this through a block grant or per capita cap designed to save money by limiting federal contributions. (Kaiser just put…
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How Restructuring Medicaid Could Affect Children
More than one-third of America’s children rely on Medicaid for their health care, and more than half of Medicaid recipients are children. Medicaid’s existing structure has helped states respond to every economic downturn, natural disaster, epidemic or innovative treatment since the program was enacted in 1965. As recently as last year, Congress put forth proposals…
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Growth In Medicaid Spending Per Enrollee Is Low
A new fact sheet from the Commonwealth Fund, “Essential Facts About Health Reform Alternatives: Block Granting Medicaid,” makes compelling arguments about the dangers of block granting Medicaid. States would receive a fixed, preset amount of federal funds that would not change if the number of enrollees increase or if the cost of services rise. This…
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Republican Health Plans Have Winners And Losers, Just Like Obamacare
FiveThirtyEight By: Anna Maria Barry-Jester The plan to repeal the ACA has been outlined, basically saying that more people will become insured at a much lower price for all. However, that plan is not clear on how exactly this will be possible. ACA, and its programs like Medicaid, have helped many underprivileged people, and as…
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State Snapshots of Children’s Health Coverage
As Say Ahhh! readers well know, Medicaid and CHIP are a primary source of coverage for children, particularly the most vulnerable children. But even people who know the importance of our public coverage programs are often surprised to learn key statistics about Medicaid and CHIP. For example, did you know that: 57 percent of all…
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Congress Must Act Quickly on CHIP
As regular readers of SayAhhh! know, funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) will expire on September 30, 2017. Medicaid and CHIP have worked together to bring the nation’s uninsurance rate for children down to a historic high of 95%. Whether the country will continue moving forward on this critical question is a key…
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Medicaid, CHIP, and ACA State Snapshots
How Medicaid, CHIP, and the ACA Cover Children Children’s health insurance coverage has reached historic levels in the United States, thanks to Medicaid, CHIP, and the ACA. The Georgetown University Center for Children and Families (CCF) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) created factsheets for the nation as well as all 51 states (including the…
