Media Coverage
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Uninsured Rate Declines
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Uninsured Rate Declines (Washington, D.C.) – Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families Co-Director Joan Alker issued the following statement in response to the release of the U.S. Census Bureau’s Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States report: “The U.S. Census data released today underscore the important contribution the…
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Children’s health at stake in states’ refusal to expand Medicaid
Education Week August 9, 2012 By Nirvi Shah As some governors say they’ll back off federal plans to expand Medicaid — and with Maine’s governor planning to cut current rolls — advocates for children’s health warn of a rollback in the progress made in insuring poor children. Research shows that children’s ability to learn is tied…
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Florida: A Bellwether For Medicaid Expansion
The Atlantic August 6, 2012 By Erin N. Marcus He was a “frequent flyer” — a patient with multiple health problems who gets admitted to the hospital repeatedly. It was usually because he hadn’t taken his medicine correctly, if at all. When he left the hospital 10 days earlier, he told his physician that he…
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Medicaid expansion spurs debate in Florida
Miami Herald July 21, 2012 By Richard Martin and Angie Drobnic Holan Medicaid is about to take a starring role in the national health care debate. Today, only certain people qualify for the health insurance program for the very poor: the elderly, the disabled, pregnant women and children. Under its proposed expansion, any poor American…
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Bending but Not Breaking
National Journal July 19, 2012 By Margot Sanger-Katz When they thought a big Medicaid expansion was mandatory, governors who opposed the health care law planned to grumble but go along. Now that Chief Justice John Roberts has essentially made the program optional, many are weighing their choices. A few are in the hell-no or hell-yes camps. Several of…
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Maine’s Efforts To Pare Medicaid May Put It On Collision Course With Administration
Kaiser Health News Jul 12, 2012 By Phil Galewitz In what is shaping up as the first state-federal showdown on Medicaid following the Supreme Court’s ruling on President Barack Obama’s health law, Maine is moving ahead with plans to cut thousands of people from its rolls to balance its state budget. Maine Gov. Paul LePage…
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Supreme Court’s Health Care Decision: Good for Kids, What About Parents?
Youth Today June 29, 2012 By Kaukab Jhumra Smith Yesterday’s affirmation of the federal Affordable Care Act by the U.S. Supreme Court maintains several important health care provisions that protect the well-being of children and youth, but the court’s ruling on the Medicaid portion of the law, which now allows states to essentially opt out of expanding…
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CCF Statement on Supreme Court’s Decision to Uphold the Affordable Care Act
Following is a statement by CCF Co-Executive Directors Jocelyn Guyer and Joan Alker on today’s Supreme Court decision. “Today is a good day for America’s children and families. The Supreme Court has affirmed the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and our nation can now continue to implement the law of the land. This…
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4.9 Million Uninsured Parents Stand to Gain Medicaid Coverage Under Affordable Care Act
While historic progress has been made in lowering the number of uninsured children in the United States, the number of uninsured parents has soared as fewer employers offered their workers health insurance and strict eligibility limits were in place for adults in need of Medicaid coverage. The Affordable Care Act will extend cost-effective Medicaid coverage…
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Georgetown University Report Finds Sequestration Replacement Bill Would Undermine Success in Helping Uninsured Kids
WASHINGTON, DC — Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families released an analysis of the Sequester Replacement Reconciliation Act and its impact on children in need of affordable health care coverage. “The measure would weaken the cost-effective Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program that have worked so successfully to help uninsured children,” said Jocelyn Guyer,…
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Public comment on KanCare plan expected to begin this week
Kansas Health Institute May 9, 2012 By Dave Ramney KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Officials with the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services say they expect to post Kansas’ new Medicaid waiver application on its website later this week. That will launch a 30-day public comment period on the proposal submitted by the administration of Gov.…
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FL passed up $200M for uninsured kids
Health News Florida May 4, 2012 By Carol Gentry Over the past two years, Florida did such a good job of enrolling uninsured children in KidCare that the state could have qualified for as much as $200 million in federal bonuses – money that could have helped get more children into care. But the state…
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Republicans Seek To Cut Funding For Program That Has Insured An Extra 1.1 Million Children
Think Progress May 3, 2012 By Guest Blogger Last week, Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee voted to slash $400 million from a program that would offer states performance bonuses if they enrolled more children in CHIP or Medicaid. Twenty-three states have already taken advantage of those bonuses, including 16 that increased their…
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Florida considering new Medicaid system
Examiner April 30, 2012 By Armand Colson Medicaid is the largest health program in the United States in terms of number of recipients, serving approximately 56 million people. Enacted in 1964 under Title XIX of the Social Security Act, Medicaid provides medical services to low income and disabled persons. Florida is considering legislation to move…
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Arizona Gets OK to Expand Health Coverage for Kids
Kaiser Health News April 6, 2012 By Phil Galewitz Nearly 22,000 poor kids in Arizona will gain health insurance coverage under a Medicaid deal the state has reached with the Obama administration, federal officials said Friday. The agreement lets Arizona use a combination of county dollars, money from the University of Arizona Health System and a small amount of state…
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Revenue Declines, Not Medicaid Expansions, to Blame for State Budget Shortfalls, Report Suggests
McKnight’s March 30, 2012 McKnight’s Staff Recession-related state budget shortfalls are the result of revenue decline, not greater spending on Medicaid, a new report suggests. Recent reports, such as the one released earlier this week by the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, indicate that high demand for the safety net program increased during the recession. Governors have…
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Report Finds Health Reform Helped State Children Get Preventive Care
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel March 21, 2012 By Guy Boulton Roughly 281,000 children in Wisconsin are receiving additional preventive health care benefits because of requirements imposed by federal health care reform, according to a study released Wednesday by the Center for Children and Families at Georgetown University. The federal law requires health plans introduced after Sept.…
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MetroHealth Wants to Create Medicaid Subsidy Program for Uninsured
The Plain Dealer March 11, 2012 By Sarah Jane Tribble CLEVELAND, Ohio — The MetroHealth System hopes to use $72 million in subsidies from Cuyahoga County taxpayers over the next two years to reduce the region’s uninsured by record numbers. The safety-net health system, with help from state regulators, recently submitted a proposal to the U.S. Centers for…
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Brownback Medicaid Plan Drawing Concern from Experts
Kansas Public Radio March 6, 2012 One of the goals of Governor Sam Brownback’s plan to overhaul Medicaid is to save money. As Jim McLean of the KHI News Service reports, that has experts urging caution. Listen to Broadcast Here
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Brownback Medicaid Makeover an “Ambitious” Plan
Kansas Health Institute March 5, 2012 By Mike Shields TOPEKA — Experts on the nation’s Medicaid program say that Gov. Sam Brownback’s plan to remake the state’s system for delivering health care to the poor, elderly and disabled is among the most far-reaching in the United States. And it faces an uncertain likelihood of gaining…