Tennessee
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Tennessee Project focuses on Enrolling and Serving Shelter Children
Eric Murray, TennCare Shelter Enrollment Coordinator More than 16,000 Tennessee children experienced homelessness in the 2005-06 school year, according to the America’s Youngest Outcasts: State Report Card on Child Homelessness, and this number has likely grown in the wake of the national economic crisis of the past several years. These children are almost twice as…
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Medicaid and State Budgets: Looking at the Facts
Medicaid continues to make up a large share of state budgets, but its role is far more nuanced than is frequently portrayed. This series of fact sheets is designed to provide a short overview of the role of Medicaid in state budgets, the sources of spending, and details on how much each state spends. The…
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Eliminating Medicaid and CHIP Stability Provisions (MoE): What’s at Stake for Children and Families
The stability in Medicaid and CHIP can be directly attributed to the short-term fiscal relief and the federal requirements that states maintain their eligibility rules and enrollment procedures until broader health reform is implemented. If the stability provisions are rescinded, states could eliminate Medicaid for anyone who is covered at state option, as well as…
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Holding Steady, Looking Ahead: Annual Findings of a 50-State Survey of Eligibility Rules, Enrollment and Renewal Procedures, and Cost Sharing Practices in Medicaid and CHIP, 2010-2011
Over the past year, as the nation’s attention was focused on the country’s economic problems and the debate over the passage of broader health care reform, Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) continued to play their vital role of providing coverage to millions of people who otherwise lack affordable coverage options. In 2010,…
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CCF Coming to a City Near You
CCF is hitting the road! We’ve scheduled four meetings around the country to bring together child and family health advocates to discuss opportunities and challenges for moving forward on coverage. Our first meeting, for the Southern region, took place last week in Tampa, Florida and despite how difficult it is to hold a health conference…
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Tennessee Governor Bredesen to Re-Open CoverKids
Today, there’s a new beat coming out of Nashville, Tennessee (aka Music City, USA). Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen has changed his tune and announced that on March 1 enrollment will resume for CoverKids, the state’s Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). The Governor had frozen enrollment in November but, after a loud public outcry, he decided to…
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What’s at Stake for Kids and Families if Health Reform Fails?
By Jocelyn Guyer Like everyone else in D.C. health policy circles, I’ve spent much of the last few days obsessively checking for updates on whether there is a coherent plan emerging from the White House and Congress for moving forward on health reform. Not yet, which means that instead of rolling up my sleeves and…
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Tennessee No Longer an “Island of Excellence” on Children’s Health Coverage
Michele Johnson, Managing Attorney, Tennessee Justice Center In 2006, Governor Phil Bredesen pledged to make our state “an island of excellence” by making sure “every child in Tennessee” had health coverage. He established a new program, to be known as CoverKids. CoverKids would be Tennessee’s version of the Children’s Health Insurance Program, or CHIP. The…
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Postcards from CCF — Tennessee
This month, CCF is heading to Nashville, Tennessee to listen to the new beat coming out of “Music City, USA.” Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen recently changed his tune and announced that on March 1, enrollment will resume for CoverKids, the state’s CHIP program. The Governor had frozen enrollment in November but, after a public outcry,…
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Weathering the Storm: States Move Forward on Child and Family Health Coverage Despite Tough Economic Climate
This report provides a first look at state activity after the passage of CHIPRA and the availability of increased Medicaid funding in the economic stimulus package. It finds that despite unprecedented fiscal challenges, all but a few states held steady on children’s health coverage, and twenty-three states took steps to move forward. This progress on…
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SCHIP 101: Learning from 10 Years of Experience
Author: Liz Arjun Tennessee SCHIP Advocates, First Focus Training — Presentation Document June 2007
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Children’s Health Coverage: States Moving Forward
This report provides results from a nationwide review of state efforts to provide health care coverage to uninsured children between January 2006 and mid-April 2007. It shows that a large number of states throughout the country have proposed, passed, or implemented initiatives to cover more children through three primary strategies: finding, enrolling, and keeping SCHIP-…
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Closing the Coverage Gap: Trends in Health Insurance Coverage for Children
From 1996-97 to 2003-04, the uninsured rate of low-income children was reduced by a third; however, the national data mask significant variation across the states in how children are faring. To provide a state-specific perspective on the issue, this brief examines health insurance trends for children in all 50 states and the District of Columbia…
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The New TennCare Waiver Proposal: What Is The Impact On Children?
This issue brief discusses the TennCare program and proposed amendments, submitted to the federal government in September 2004 and February 2005, to the state’s Section 1115 Medicaid waiver. It shows that although many of the proposed restrictions in benefits and cuts in eligibility explicitly apply to adults and not to children, the state also seeks…