Public News Service Washington By Lori Abbott October 29th, 2015 SEATTLE – More children in Washington now have health insurance. That’s the good news according to a report from the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families and the Seattle-based Children’s Alliance, which credits the success of Apple Health for Kids and the Affordable Care […]
Public News Service November 25, 2013 By Mike Clifford, AUGUSTA, Maine – New England states are leading the nation in a new report that compares states’ efforts to get health coverage to uninsured children, but Maine is clearly lagging behind its neighbors. The number of uninsured children in Maine increased by about 1200 in 2012 and 2013, […]
Public News Service By: Veronica Carter According to the new report by Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families, the rates of insured children nationwide reached a historical high of 95%. Between 2013 and 2015, Minnesota also reduced 45% of uninsured children – now having 97% of children covered with insurance. This is great for Minnesota, […]
Public News Service November 14, 2013 By Dan Heyman, CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Almost all West Virginia children have health care coverage, but many of their parents don’t, especially in working families. The good news is that if the parents can get insurance, it could actually help the health of the children. Renate Poer, director of […]
By Heather Braum, Kansas Action for Children Kansas released the second set of data for how the year-long KanCare unwinding process is going, with data available through June 30, 2023, and has now broken out the data into age ranges and by county for those who had not returned a renewal form in April or May. Since […]
As readers of Say Ahh! know, we’ve been closely tracking data from around the country related to the lifting of the COVID-19 pandemic related continuous coverage protections in Medicaid. The tracker is going up very quickly now– we hit one million on Halloween, two million on Thanksgiving and today three million fewer children are enrolled […]
Soundbite Services JACKSON, Miss. – There’s some good news for Mississippi and the nation in terms of getting health coverage for more children. About 8700 more kids have health insurance in Mississippi today than in 2010, according to a new report from the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families. Nationally, it says more kids are insured […]
Ninety-seven percent of children living in the US are citizens, but one in four have an immigrant parent. New research from the Urban Institute shows that coverage gaps for citizen children with noncitizen parents widened relative to other children from 2016-2019, reversing much of the coverage gains these children experienced from 2013-2016. These findings are […]
Public News Service November 20, 2013 By Mike Clifford, NEW YORK – New York is in the top five for states that have managed to reduce the ranks of uninsured children – but a new poll shows public perception isn’t in tune with that reality. According to the poll from the Georgetown Center for Children and […]
Report by: Maggie Clark, Georgetown University CCF, & Debbie Smith, Alabama Arise Download Full Report Introduction Alabama mothers face many barriers to good health. The state faces high maternal and infant mortality rates, high rates of uninsurance among women of childbearing age, and worsening access to maternity care providers. These problems are compounded by Alabama’s […]
House Republicans recently released an outline of their plans to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act and today an earlier version of the bill they were drafting was leaked. While the leaked bill is likely an old draft, both of these documents confirm what I have suspected was coming — while repealing and replacing […]
As we celebrate the good news of the highest health coverage levels on record for children, the latest ACA repeal effort in Congress once again threatens to destabilize the foundation of coverage for our nation’s children. We’ve written before about the ways that structural changes to Medicaid through block grants or caps will harm young […]
York Dispatch January 14, 2015 By George Hoover, When Pennsylvania created one of the nation’s first Children’s Health Insurance Programs in 1992, we did it because we knew it would be good for kids and their families. As an added bonus, our CHIP initiative — approved with broad, bipartisan consensus seldom seen these days — […]
KUER 90.1 By: Erik Neumann For the first time in nearly a decade, fewer kids in Utah have health coverage, according to a new report from Georgetown University. KUER’s Erik Neumann spoke with Joan Alker, executive director of the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families about the new report and what’s behind this trend. […]
Among the 19 states that have yet to expand Medicaid to all adults up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level, Wisconsin is the only one that covers all adults that are below the poverty level. It’s a policy choice that compares favorably to the 18 other “non-expansion” states; however, Wisconsin’s partial expansion covers […]
Following up on President Biden’s announcement earlier this month, HHS released a proposed rule that would make DACA grantees eligible for Marketplace coverage and some Medicaid/CHIP coverage. This is an important step in the right direction – removing unnecessary and unjustified barriers to health coverage for DACA grantees – but there is more work to […]
It is a well-documented fact that connecting parents with coverage has a positive impact on children and now Maine Children’s Alliance has released a report that shows how disconnecting parents from coverage negatively impacts children. About 28,500 working Maine parents lost coverage after the state scaled back coverage in 2012. Prior to 2012, Maine offered […]
In 2020, Georgia submitted a waiver under Section 1332 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to allow the state to exit HealthCare.gov; the Trump Administration approved the request in November of last year. Under this proposal, the 500,000 Georgians who use the federal marketplace every year to enroll in private health plans and Medicaid would […]
Before the new year slips from memory, I wanted to take stock of a few good things happening for kids covered by Medicaid and CHIP this year. Amidst all the dismal news about how nearly 4 million children have lost their coverage during the unwinding – many remain eligible but lost coverage due to red […]
In these tough times, when so many people have lost their jobs and and their health insurance, Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) are lifelines families can turn to for help covering the cost of health care. Medicaid and CHIP provide free or low-cost health coverage for children and pregnant women with low […]
