The State By: Jamie Self Thousands of South Carolina’s poorest parents will lose health insurance under a state proposal to impose work requirements on Medicaid recipients, a new study says. Between 5,000 and 14,000 S.C. parents would lose their Medicaid coverage in the first year such a policy is in force, according to a report […]
America Magazine By: Editorial Board In November the Georgetown Center for Children and Families announced that the number of uninsured children in the United States went up for the first time in nearly a decade. While 7.6 million children were uninsured in 2008, by 2016 that figure had dropped to 3.6 million. But in 2017, 300,000 children […]
Health Affairs In the partisan world of health policy, CHIP, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, had always stood out as a bipartisan exception. However, in 2017 through the early days of 2018, Congress let CHIP funding lapse for an unprecedented 114 days. After funding was restored, Tricia Brooks discussed in detail why it took so […]
Northern Kentucky Tribune By: Melissa Patrick For the first time in nearly a decade, the number of uninsured children in the United States and Kentucky increased, according to a report from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. From 2016 to 2017, the number of uninsured U.S. children rose by 276,000, to nearly 4 million. About 5 percent […]
WBUR 90.9 By: Miriam Wasser Massachusetts prides itself on its healthcare system and coverage rates. But, for the first time in at least a decade, the number of uninsured children here increased in a statistically significant way, a report from the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute finds. Though the numbers are small in absolute terms — 15,000 uninsured […]
KUER 90.1 By: Erik Neumann Orrin Hatch authored or co-sponsored over 700 bills — more than any other living lawmaker — making him one of the health care industry’s biggest champions. As prolific as he may have been, Hatch can’t claim sole credit for his influence over the industry as his most significant legislation came by working with […]
