Research & Reports
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New CMS CHIPRA Guidance Coming – Straight from the Source
By Joe Touschner As we all follow the twists and turns of health care reform in Congress, it’s easy to forget that the critical children’s health legislation that’s already been passed this year–CHIPRA–is well on its way to being implemented. CMS Medicaid and State Operations Director Cindy Mann (CCF’s former fearless leader) took the time…
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Children in Health Care Reform: Where Things Stand
With so much round-the-clock activity on health care reform, it is sometimes hard to keep all the facts straight on where things are for kids. We released a fact sheet today that we hope helps to provide a roadmap on the child and family provisions in the leading health reform proposals: House bill (H.R. 3962)…
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Key Medicaid, CHIP, and Low-Income Provisions in H.R. 3962: The Affordable Health Care for America Act of 2009
This fact sheet provides a description of the key Medicaid, CHIP, and low-income provisions in the merged health reform bill released by the House and amended on November 3, 2009.
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Poll: Affordability and Health Care Coverage
This survey shows that families are still reeling from the recession, feeling pessimistic about the future, and struggling to afford health care. Health care costs are squeezing families financially, forcing them to make hard choices. For this reason, their goal for health care reform is overwhelmingly to make health care more affordable and to lower…
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House Health Reform Bill: Fact Sheet on Child and Family Provisions
Yesterday evening, the House released revisions (referred to as a manager’s amendment) to its health reform bill, H.R. 3962. Leadership could now potentially bring the bill to the House floor by this weekend, but the schedule is still undecided. CCF has released a fact sheet to help guide you through the bill’s (with the new…
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House Releases Health Reform Bill: A Quick Look at the Child and Family Provisions
Yesterday the House Leadership released its merged health reform bill, The Affordable Health Care for Americans Act of 2009. It includes some noteworthy changes with respect to kids and families from the previous version of the bill. Here are some highlights: Raises the mandatory Medicaid threshold from 133% to 150% FPL. CBO estimates that by…
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Women and Health Reform: The Latest Data
Judy Waxman, Vice President for Health and Reproductive Rights, National Women’s Law Center This week, we released a new report, Still Nowhere to Turn: Insurance Companies Treat Women Like a Pre-Existing Condition, uncovering the latest data on the disparities women face in health care coverage. Some of our findings included: The extent of gender rating —…
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Health Reform Bill’s Pediatric Dental Benefit Could Have A Tremendous Impact on Children’s Health
Meg Booth, Deputy Executive Director, Children’s Health Dental Project In the past months of health reform debate, we at Children’s Dental Health Project have continuously heard the surprise and elation that all of the House and Senate Committees debating this issue included a dental benefit for children as part of their proposals. The disappointment later…
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Federal Options for Improving Public Program Enrollment & Retention
Author: Dawn Horner United Hospital Fund — Presentation Document October 2009
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Children in Health Reform: What’s at Stake?
By Jocelyn Guyer Moms Rising — Presentation Document October 2009
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Setting the Record Straight on Medicaid and Access
In the past few months, opponents of health reform have made many false claims about various aspects of legislation moving through Congress. The most recent example that comes to mind are the charges made about Medicaid during mark-up of the Senate Finance Committee bill. Opponents slung a lot of mud at the Medicaid program and…
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FMAP – A Four-Letter Acronym that Inspires Controversy
By Martha Heberlein As a shared federal-state program, the distribution of financing in Medicaid has long been an area of debate. Whenever changes in the program are discussed (or as in the debate over the stimulus package, increases are considered), distributional questions come up. How much should the federal government pay versus the states? How…
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Digging in Deeper on the Question of Affordable Premiums in the Senate Finance Committee Mark
By Martha Heberlein What is “affordable” has long been a hot-button issue in the health reform debate. In fact, much of the criticism following the release of the Senate Finance Committee mark centered on this very question. Although there is no consensus on the definition, looking at how much low-income families in public program currently…
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Senate Finance Committee Moves Forward: Key Issues for Child and Family Coverage
By Jocelyn Guyer The Senate Finance Committee began its markup yesterday and moved into high gear today, taking votes for the first time on amendments. Senator Baucus released his mark last Wednesday, September 15th and was immediately deluged with over 500 amendments. Yesterday, he released a revised version that incorporates some of the amendments. From…
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CHIPRA Can Help Improve Health Care for Non-English Speakers
Jon Peacock, Wisconsin Council on Children and Families The Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (CHIPRA) approved by Congress early this year gives states financial assistance and policy options that help states maintain and improve coverage of kids. One source of financial assistance that has gotten less attention is an enhanced federal match rate for…
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Access to Care for Children in Medicaid
Medicaidʼs Substantial Coverage Role for Children Medicaid covers more than 23 million children, more than one-quarter of all children, and more than half of low income children.1 Between 1997 and 2006, the proportion of low-income uninsured children fell from to 23 percent to 15 percent;2 success that is largely attributable to the role that Medicaid…
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Is There Oral Health in Health Reform?
Author: Tricia Brooks New England Rural Oral Health Conference — Presentation Documents September 2009
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300% or 400%? A Big Difference for Families
By Martha Heberlein A primary reason many people lack insurance coverage is that they cannot afford it. For the last decade, growth in premiums has far outpaced growth in wages and the cost of private coverage is often out of reach for low- and moderate-income families. One goal of health reform is to provide subsidies…
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Implementation Choices for the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009
The Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (CHIPRA) of 2009 has the potential to transform children’s health care in the United States. This report analyzes selected provisions of the legislation that involve outreach and enrollment, as well as child health quality and measurement. Using input from interviews with a range of stakeholders and a panel…
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Children and Health Care Reform: Assuring Coverage Meets Their Health Care Needs
Because they are growing and developing, children have a distinct set of health care needs that evolve over time and differ from those of adults. Moreover, while as a group children are relatively healthy, one in seven has special health care needs. Given that under reform, many children will be covered through private plans and…