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  • Medicaid is a Critical Insurer for Small Business

    In Partnership with: This issue brief examines the prevalence of Medicaid as a source of insurance for small business owners, employees, and their family members using 2024 data from the Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement (CPS ASEC). Small businesses are defined as those with under 100 employees. Our analysis of…

  • Medicaid and CHIP Cuts in the House-Passed Reconciliation Bill Explained

    Editor’s Note: CCF published a brief explaining the final bill that was signed into law on July 4, 2025. In the early morning of Thursday, May 22nd, on a 215-214 vote, House Republicans passed their budget reconciliation bill (the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” or H.R. 1).  The bill includes numerous provisions related to Medicaid…

  • 2025 Medicaid and CHIP Eligibility, Enrollment, and Renewal Policies Survey Released by KFF and CCF

    During the unwinding of the COVID-related freeze on disenrollments in Medicaid, states were required to renew health insurance for all 94 million enrollees. The focus on Medicaid renewal processes during the unwinding revealed their complexity and inefficiencies in the system. With states facing an unprecedented volume of work and eligibility worker shortages, CMS provided new…

  • Medicaid Helps Families of Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs

    In partnership, the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families and Family Voices, —a national nonprofit led by families and friends of children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN) and disabilities—are sharing perspectives from families whose children have special health care needs and disabilities and are covered by Medicaid.   In a survey conducted…

  • Medicaid Helps Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs

    In Partnership with: Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN) Depend on Medicaid Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN) are defined as children who have chronic physical, developmental, behavioral, or emotional conditions and who also require health and related services of a type or amount beyond that required by children…