2017
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Capital Beat: Amid CHIP Uncertainty, N.H. Likely to Come Out Ahead
Concord Monitor By: Ethan DeWitt But while the New Hampshire program is safe at least until the next budget negotiations in 2019, some are still urging caution. At a press conference Friday, Sen. Maggie Hassan and Rep. Ann Kuster, both Democrats, said that the lapse of CHIP, if made permanent, would spell problems down the…
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CHIP Funding has Expired, but Florida Families Shouldn’t Worry. Yet.
Tampa Bay Times By: Kirby Wilson Funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program has expired, but that shouldn’t affect Florida — for now. … According to Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families, the U.S. government covered about 96 percent of the $686.6 million Florida spent in 2017 to cover children in families earning too…
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Patients, Health Insurers Challenge Iowa’s Effort To Privatize Medicaid
Iowa Public Radio By: Clay Masters Iowa is one of 38 states that radically changed the way it runs Medicaid over the past few years. The state moved about 600,000 people on the government-run health program into care that is managed by for-profit insurance companies. … So where’s the savings? So far, no state has…
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176,000 Pennsylvania Children’s Health Care at Risk as CHIP Funding Lapses
York Dispatch By: Jason Addy As Republican lawmakers made one final push to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act at the end of September, federal funding expired for almost 9 million children and teens covered by the Children’s Health Insurance Program. … Despite lawmakers working to re-fund the program, Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children President…
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States Scramble to Overcome Congress’ Failure to Move on CHIP
Stateline By Michael Ollove With the U.S. Senate distracted last month by another Hail Mary attempt by Republicans to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, Congress didn’t get around to reauthorizing CHIP by the Sept. 30 deadline. And that has left states contemplating how to keep the program running when the federal funding runs…
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Good, Bad News on Medicaid Costs
Urban Milwaukee By: John Peacock A state’s lagging economic performance can have a silver lining – in the form of increased federal assistance. Thanks to a Medicaid formula that currently provides more generous cost-sharing to states that are below average in per capita income, Wisconsin’s rather anemic personal income growth will save the state millions…
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Brief: CHIP Reauthorization Moves Forward, but Slowly
Healthcare Dive By: Les Masterson Congress missed a Sept. 30 deadline to reauthorize the federal/state program, which costs about $14 billion annually and covers children of families with low and moderate incomes. The program has wide bipartisan support, but Democrats don’t support legislation proposed by Republicans that would cut other health programs like Medicare or…
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Lawmakers in Washington: Extend the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and do it stat
LancasterOnline Editorial Board People don’t agree on much these days. But we’ll wager that most of us agree on this: Children ought to have health insurance. And community health centers that serve low-income families ought to be funded. Which is why it came as a surprise to many that federal funding for the Children’s Health…
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Health care reform efforts complicate CHIP extension
Special Education Connection Efforts in Congress to renew the Children’s Health Insurance Program have begun to steer off course as some lawmakers want to attach other health care reform proposals to the CHIP legislation. … “If we can’t extend CHIP, it will put undue stress on kids and families and that will have a ripple…
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Health Care: Here’s How Many Texas Kids Are At Risk Because Of Congress
Patch By Don Johnson Nearly 9 million kids across the country rely on health insurance from CHIP, the Children’s Health Insurance Program. Although it’s not a controversial program, Congress let its funding expire Oct. 1 — and many states may soon tell millions of families that their insurance plans are ending. In Texas, 1.1 million…
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Section 1115 Medicaid Waiver Comments
Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families contributes an independent perspective to the public dialogue on the future of Medicaid through the lens of children and their families.
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Pay for health coverage for kids? Not so fast | Editorial
There’s no more glaring example of this basic failure of governance than the expiration this past weekend of federal funding of the Children’s Health Insurance Program and other critical safety-net programs that provide services to hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians and millions more people nationwide. … In Pennsylvania, 176,241 children receive services through CHIP, a joint federal…
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CHIP is Moving Ahead But Will Congress Get to the Finish Line in Time?
Late last night House Republicans released text of their bill (the Healthy Kids Act) to extend funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and they are proceeding rapidly to mark up tomorrow in the Energy and Commerce Committee. The Senate Finance Committee is also marking up their bill, the KIDS Act, tomorrow. The very…
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The Medicaid Expansion is Good for Parents AND Good for Children
Parents and children are more likely to have health coverage now than they were before the Affordable Care Act took effect. The Urban Institute released new research that shows the rate of insurance coverage for parents and children increased significantly between June/September 2013 and March 2017. During the time period, the rate of coverage increased…
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Congress Moves Toward Funding Lapsed Federal Children’s Health Insurance Program
CNBC By: Dan Mangan Congress already blew one deadline for reauthorizing the federal Children’s Health Insurance Program. Now it’s trying to not blow through another looming one. Two committees — one in the Senate, the other in the House — are set Wednesday to begin marking up bills that would continue funding for CHIP. ……
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The Brewing New Health Care Fight in Congress, Explained
Vox By: Dylan Scott Funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program expired on October 1, and states will start running out of money soon, putting coverage for 9 million children at risk. … “Obviously it is not a good idea to set up a situation where there may be delays in accessing prenatal care or…
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Federal Funding Lapse Raises Concerns About CHIP, but Officials Say there’s Reason for Optimism
Lancaster Online By: Heather Stauffer Federal funding for CHIP expired Saturday, raising questions about the future of the Children’s Health Insurance Program that covers just over 10,000 children in Lancaster County and roughly 9 million nationwide. Lawmakers, state officials and local providers said the lapse won’t cause any immediate changes here, but they’re concerned about…
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More Kids Have Insurance But Advocates Fear For The Future
WXPR By: Soundbite Source Kansas and the rest of the country saw the number of uninsured children drop to historic lows in 2016, according to a new report. The Georgetown University Center for Children and Families found fewer than five percent of children nationwide are uninsured. In Kansas, the rate dropped from 5.1 percent in…
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CHIP Extension Dangerously Delayed Past Expiration Date
New York Magazine By: Ed Kilgore The lack of urgency was rationalized by the fact that all states have a positive balance of CHIP money, and most could operate the program past the beginning of 2018. But the delay in reauthorizing CHIP will have real consequences if it lasts much longer. As Talking Points Memo…
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Editorial: Florida Needs CHIP to Insure Children
The Herald Tribune Editorial Florida has positive momentum in its efforts — supported by the federal government — to reduce the number of children not covered by some form of health insurance. … As the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families reports, “Florida has cut its rate of uninsured children by more than half…
