Aubrianna Osorio is the Research Manager at the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families (CCF). Prior to this role, she served as CCF’s Graduate Research Intern. Aubrianna has an MPP from the Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy and a BA in Sociology from Kenyon College.
Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) together provide coverage for nearly half of the 13.9 million children with special health care needs, who have or are at higher risk of developing chronic conditions and have greater health care needs than children overall. As Congress considers additional funding to improve and expand Medicaid home […]
Last week, we blogged about the 1 in 10 children who were uninsured at some point during the course of the recent uptick in uninsured children and how requiring 12-month continuous eligibility in both Medicaid and CHIP could help reduce racial, income, and geographic disparities in kids’ insurance coverage. This week, we’re taking another look […]
As readers of SayAhhh! know, the number of uninsured kids was going down for many years, but during the Trump administration starting going back up – rising to 5.7 percent child uninsured rate in 2019. While children are insured at higher rates than non-elderly adults, they still lag considerably behind seniors – who with Medicare […]
As regular readers may know, we at CCF are big fans of a good dashboard to highlight Medicaid/CHIP data. Well-designed dashboards can pack a wealth of information about a state’s enrollment, quality of care, utilization rates, and managed care performance into a central and easily accessible location. Dashboards also provide transparency, which can help level […]
While we won’t be able to do our in-depth analysis of children’s health coverage trends this fall due to problems collecting American Community Survey data during the pandemic, the Census Bureau did release a report on national trends in health insurance coverage in 2020 using the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement. Overall, […]