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  • Cost Sharing – What is Affordable in Health Reform?

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    By Martha Heberlein As the health reform debate continues to ramp up, questions of what is affordable and how much families should contribute still remain. Perhaps a look at the research could shed some light on the answers. A recent study in Health Affairs by Tom Selden, Jenny Kenney, and colleagues looks at cost sharing…

  • Oregon Isn’t Waiting for Health Reform to Pass In Order to Help Uninsured Children and Families

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    Guest Blogger, Cathy Kaufman, Communications and Policy Director at Children First for Oregon Liz Arjun has blogged about the fact that CHIPRA has encouraged many states to move forward on health coverage for children despite facing difficult budgetary climates.  We have posted guest blogs from children’s health coverage experts in Colorado and Kansas, two of…

  • The Week in Health Reform – Hitting a Speed Bump

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    By Jocelyn Guyer Health reform didn’t go very well this week and everyone already knows it. Since it is well-covered territory, I’ll leave the depressing details to others, and stick to what this week’s developments mean for children. Leaving aside for now the just-released and yet-to-be-read 852-page House bill on health reform, the most notable…

  • $6 Billion for CHIP – the Allotments are In!

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    By Martha Heberlein The long-awaited (at least by us) fiscal year 2009 “CHIPRA allotments” were released today.  They reveal, in final form, the new federal funding available to each state for its Child Health Insurance Program (CHIP) in fiscal year 2009.  As we anticipated based on earlier projections, each and every state will experience a…

  • The Health Care Game of Chance: A Tale of Two Families

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    Some of you may have been listening to the Senate HELP Committee hearings this week on its health reform proposal, the Affordable Health Choices Act. There was a lot of talking going on, making it hard at times to see “the forest through the trees.” But Senator Dodd’s opening statement provided some clarity when he…

  • Affordable Healthy Choices Act – Implications for Kids in the Health Reform Bill

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    By Jocelyn Guyer Last week, the Senate HELP Committee publicly released the first, major bill outlining its proposal for health reform, the Affordable Health Choices Act.  It is easy when reading any bill — especially a 615-page one that you are reading at 5:00 a.m. to avoid being distracted by e-mail, phone calls, and kids…

  • The Numbers Are In: Could Some Children End Up Worse Off After Health Reform?

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    By Jocelyn Guyer We’ve finally got a glimpse at how the all-important Congressional Budget Office is thinking about evaluating the cost of the major health reform proposals under consideration in Congress. CBO today released a preliminary analysis and blog entry on the estimated impact of Senator Kennedy’s Affordable Health Choices Act. Unfortunately, the results are…

  • Children’s Health Insurance Program Financing – Not as Cutting Edge as Dr. Gawande’s Article But Vital to Kids Health

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    By Jocelyn Guyer Not destined to be as au courant in health reform circles as Dr. Atul Gawande’s article on health care costs that President Obama is now touting, but if you would like the blow-by-blow on how the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (CHIPRA) changes the way that federal dollars flow to states…

  • CHIP Tips: CHIP Financing Structure

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    The CHIP law enacted in 2009 includes a number of important program and financing changes that affect both Medicaid and CHIP. Some of the most important changes to CHIP’s financing structure include: significant new federal funding for the CHIP program through September 30, 2013; changes in the formula for distributing CHIP funds among states; and…

  • Pay Attention to Children in Health Reform!

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    Kay Johnson Kay Johnson has been a leader in child health policy for 25 years. She is a Research Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Dartmouth Medical School and a Lecturer in Health Policy at the George Washington University. She also is president of Johnson Group Consulting. With passage of CHIPRA, federal policymakers may be tempted…

  • The Last Piece of the Puzzle: What do Children Need from Health Reform?

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    You can’t pick up a paper (some of us do still read them) or read a blog today without hearing about health reform. In fact, you have read on our blog about the flurry of activity on the Hill. The good news is that no longer is the argument focused on whether health reform is…

  • Children’s Issues and Effortless Enrollment are Building Momentum in Health Reform

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    By Jocelyn Guyer The Center for Children and Families staff is scurrying as fast as a NASCAR pit crew as two of our top issues are building momentum. We are participating in back-to-back Capitol Hill forums on addressing children’s unique health needs in health reform and removing bureaucratic hurdles to enrollment in Medicaid and CHIP.…

  • Effortless Enrollment Saves Taxpayers $ and Helps Uninsured Children Access Medicaid and CHIP

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    Robert Nelb, MPH Candidate 2009, Yale University, Senior Fellow, The Roosevelt Institution As readers of this blog know, we became fans of Nelb’s work when we came across a letter-to-the-editor he wrote regarding pointless paperwork.  Robert is a senior fellow for The Roosevelt Institution and the winner of the Brookings Institution’s Hamilton Project Economic Policy…

  • Flurry of Activity On Health Reform Front Continues

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    By Jocelyn Guyer When my third child was born just 20 months after our twins, I was briefly the mom of three kids under the age of two.  Not as tough as the challenge facing Jon and Kate plus Eight or the octuplet mom, but enough to make me think that my life would never…

  • Making CHIPRA Work: Enrolling Eligible Children in Health Coverage

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    Author: Tricia Brooks Council of State Governments – Presentation Document May 2009

  • The Last Piece of the Puzzle

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    By Jocelyn Guyer Center for American Progress — Presentation Document May 2009

  • Mostly Good News for Children in Senate Finance Committee’s Health Reform Proposal

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    By Jocelyn Guyer Yesterday, the Senate Finance Committee released a set of health reform coverage options, offering some important insight into the direction this crucial committee may take as it tackles the goal of covering all Americans. It’s hard to sum up the 61-page document — not only does it cover a lot of terrain but there are options…

  • Fact Sheet on Senate Finance Committee’s Coverage Options paper

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    This fact sheet provides a review of the key provisions affecting children, families and low-income people.  

  • Can We Afford to Leave Children’s Issues on the Sidelines of the Health Reform Debate?

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    Aimee Ossman, Director of Medicaid and State Policy Analysis, National Association of Children’s Hospitals As our national leaders debate health care reform, there must be a focus on children. The Senate Finance Committee has held two roundtable discussions highlighting the delivery of health care and coverage. In both of these roundtables there was a lot…

  • Bipartisan Effort Delivers Needed Health Care for Kansas Kids

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    Suzanne Wikle, Director of Health Policy, Kansas Action for Children Last week, Liz Arjun blogged about the fact that CHIPRA has encouraged many states to move forward on health coverage for children despite achallenging budgetary climates.  We took a look at Colorado’s expansion in a guest blog entry last week.  This week, we want to…