Media Coverage

Coconino Coalition for Children & Youth By: Carley Perlman April 29, 2016 KidsCare program’s frozen in Arizona, making this state the only state without Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Based on a report by the Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families, this lead to more than 160,000 uninsured children – making Arizona the 2nd…

Grijalva House.Gov By: Raúl M. Grijalva April 22, 2016 Raúl M. Grijalva, a congressman, wrote a letter to the Arizona State Senate President Andy Biggs, where he expressed his concerns on Arizona’s children healthcare status, and provided information supporting the ‘motion’ to bring back the KidsCare program on 2017. … Ending the enrollment freeze on KidsCare…

The Arizona Republic By: Ken Alltucker April 13, 2016 Arizona, according to a study by the Center for Children and Families, is one of the states with the highest rate of uninsured children, because it does not have an active version of the CHIP program. Once they make changes to this, the state would be…

Arizona Grantmakers Forum By: Laurie Liles March 23, 2016 Laurie Liles published a letter she sent to the Governor of Arizona, Doug Ducey, requesting him to unfreeze KidsCare. The letter provided evidence with the objectives that restoring KidsCare coverage would accomplish: healthier children doing better in school and having a better future, and improvement in…

Community Catalyst January 15, 2016 A study by the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families reported that Arizona has one of the highest rates for uninsured children in the United States. This is due to the fact that Arizona does not have an active CHIP program, which they call KidsCare. That is also affecting…

The Hertel Report January 13, 2016 KidsCare, Arizona’s version of the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), has been inactive since 2010, and ended in 2014. Based on a study by the Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families, that has lead Arizona to have the highest rates of uninsured children in the United States of…

Inside CMS By Erin Rafferty October 29th, 2015 The rate of uninsured children dropped to an historic low of 6 percent in 2014, down from 7.1 percent in 2013, and states that expanded Medicaid typically had sharper declines in the number of uninsured children than non-expansion states, according to a report commissioned by the Georgetown…

KTVN By Arianna Bennett November 4th, 2015 A national study just released shows Nevada has made major gains when it comes to children with health insurance. According to the study by Georgetown University, Nevada went from nearly 100,000 children who were uninsured in 2013 to about 64,000 last year. That bumped our state up in…

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities  By Jesse Cross-Call October 28th, 2015 The uninsured rate among children fell to a historic low of 6 percent in 2014 as health reform’s major coverage expansions took effect, the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families’ annual report on children’s health coverage finds.  That’s down from 7.1 percent in…

Tech Times By Dianne Depra November 3rd, 2015 Majority of children in West Virginia have health care coverage, according to the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute’s Center for Children and Families (CCF).   … Other key findings from the CCF include that the Affordable Care Act brought about highest drop in uninsurance rates in children,…

WGCU By John Davis November 4th, 2015 November 1 marked the start of open enrollment to sign up for health insurance through the Affordable Care Act.  Residents of Florida, along with three dozen other states can shop for plans online at healthcare.gov through the end of January.  Florida residents led in enrollment last year with about…

Equal Voice  November 2nd, 2015 The percentage of children without health insurance fell to its lowest point in decades in 2014, with Alabama boasting the lowest rate in the Deep South, the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute reported. … “States that extended Medicaid coverage to more uninsured adults saw nearly double the rate of decline…

Public News Service October 30th, 2015 Illinois is doing better than most states when it comes to children’s health-insurance coverage. A report released today from the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families shows Illinois’ rate of uninsured children dropped more than 20 percent from 2013. Kathy Waligora, director of health-reform initiaves at EverThrive Illinois, credited…

Greater Dakota News Services  By Jack taylor November 2nd, 2015 SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO AM) – A report from the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families shows South Dakota’s rate of uninsured kids dropped 9% last year. Carole Cochran with South Dakota Kid’s Count, says while the state did not expand Medicaid, South Dakota…

Newsplex  October 30th, 2015 RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The number of uninsured children in Virginia was an estimated 107,000 in 2014. The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports a study from the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute Center for Children and Families reveals that the number of uninsured children in the state has increased from 5.4 percent in…

Herald Tribune  By Maggie Clark October 29th, 2015 Despite chart-topping insurance signups up through the Affordable Care Act and record-breaking Medicaid enrollment last year, hundreds of thousands of Florida children still went without insurance coverage in 2014, according to newly released U.S. Census data on health insurance status. Last year, 377,987 Florida children were uninsured.…