By Barbara Munoz, Voices for Utah Children I have had the great privilege over the last several weeks of interviewing families throughout the state of Utah who have benefited from CHIP or Medicaid. There really is no better way of advocating for children’s health than through the telling of personal stories of real families affected […]
WILX 10 An insurance program meant to cover low-income kids is nearly out of money. Washington can easily reauthorize new money for the program, and many legislators on both sides of the aisle want to. However, another week wraps up, and once again, Congress has not closed a deal on new funding for the Children’s […]
It’s been 13 years since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law. At the time my daughter was in elementary school and I didn’t much think about what would happen to her health insurance – but now as she seems very grown up and is about to graduate from college and search for […]
Public News Service November 20, 2013 By Mary Kuhlman, SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – Efforts to expand health-care coverage to Illinois children are paying off, according to a new report. The Georgetown University Center for Children and Families found that, while poverty rates are still high, Illinois saw a decrease of slightly more than 1 percent in the number […]
Today we released our ninth annual report that tracks children’s health insurance coverage at the state and national level. This report looks at two-year trends from 2016 to 2018 analyzing American Community Survey data from the Census Bureau. We believe this is the first national report to look at this two-year time period, a time […]
CMS just released 2013 participation rates for children in Medicaid and CHIP, as calculated by experts at the Urban Institute. We keep a close eye on this data as it provides important insights into how well states are reaching eligible but uninsured children (which are the majority of uninsured children). As Say Ahhh! readers well […]
The California Health Care Foundation has just issued a path-breaking report that marks an important step forward on the road to full transparency about Medicaid managed care. The report, prepared by Dr. Andrew Bindman and his colleagues at the University of California at San Francisco, examines the performance of managed care plans (MCPs) in Medi-Cal […]
WILX 10 An insurance program meant to cover low-income kids is nearly out of money. Washington can easily reauthorize new money for the program, and many legislators on both sides of the aisle want to. However, another week wraps up, and once again, Congress has not closed a deal on new funding for the Children’s […]
Recent press accounts have noted that Republicans are thinking about using the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) as a bargaining tool to entice Democrats to vote for health legislation that replaces the Affordable Care Act (ACA). CHIP’s funding expires on September 30, 2017, which means that Congress must act soon to ensure that it continues […]
By Sophia Duong The graph above is the most telling figure from the study, “The Association Between Medicaid Coverage for Children and Parents Persists: 2002-2010,” which analyzes the relationship between parent and child enrollment in public coverage in Oregon from 2002 to 2010. In the graph, children’s coverage (represented by the dotted blue line) is […]
As the House of Representatives moves with rapid speed to pass legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act, the public can finally get a glimpse of their plan – though the public still needs a lot more information about the proposal and the “intended” and “unintended” consequences it would have for children and families. The […]
Last week our colleagues at the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured released a new report that children’s advocates, in particular, will find helpful, if not surprising. Helpful because it allows us to hear directly from parents about their children’s coverage experiences and what they value most. Kaiser’s research team conducted 14 focus groups […]
By Ella Mathews and Shreya Kalra As Unwinding Wednesday readers know, our 50 State Unwinding Tracker is updated regularly as we monitor new information, specifically new unwinding data, provided by states. The tracker has evolved since we released it almost a year ago – both in the number of states publicly providing unwinding information and […]
Public News Services November 25, 2013 By Mike Clifford, CONCORD, N.H. – A new report shows that the Granite State has slipped just a bit among the states for providing health coverage to kids. The findings, from the Georgetown Center for Children and Families (CCF), showed New Hampshire took a big bite out of the problem by pulling […]
[Editor’s Note: On March 4, 2019 South Carolina posted a revised application for state public comment.] Just before the holidays, South Carolina posted its application for new work-related reporting rules for very low-income parents and caretaker relatives with incomes below 67 percent of the poverty line who are insured through Medicaid. Today we partnered with South Carolina […]
Public News Service November 21, 2013 By Alison Burns, RICHMOND, Va. – Most headlines about health insurance have been discouraging these days, but here in Virginia, there’s good news about coverage for kids. A new Georgetown University Center for Children and Families report found that Virginia has seen a 14 percent decline in the number of uninsured children […]
Not that you needed another reason that capping federal Medicaid payments to states would be an unmitigated disaster for children and families. But since the proposal is alive and well in some quarters—notably the President’ FY 2019 Budget—it’s worth marshaling as many as possible. Here’s another one, from the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. The […]
Public News Service November 20, 2013 By Tom Joseph, HARRISBURG, Pa. – A perception about health insurance for children in Pennsylvania is that things are worse than they actually are. A poll done for the Georgetown Center for Children and Families shows most people assume that more kids are uninsured and live in poverty since the recession. […]
This year the Tennessee Justice Center launched a Student Ambassador Program to engage young people in our Insure Our Kids Campaign. This campaign seeks to get every eligible child in Tennessee enrolled in health insurance coverage by educating the community and providing enrollment assistance. To find and enroll those uninsured students, we turned to their […]
Congress created a crisis when it failed to meet the deadline to extend CHIP funding on September 30, and they have been kicking the can down the road ever since. Their neglect has left states trying to hold their CHIP programs together as best they can under very difficult circumstances, while holding out hope that […]
