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

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.…

May 28, 2009

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When will public health insurance programs catch up with the rest of the online world?

If technology were not so prolific, there would be no reason to write this blog. My kids grew up using computers and cannot remember a time when technology was not a focal point of everyday life. From researching homework (or health policy) to balancing your checkbook and paying bills, from shopping for hard-to-find sizes to…

May 26, 2009

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Tricia Brooks

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Medicaid is as Essential to Health Reform as a Pair of Blue Jeans is to Your Wardrobe – Exchanges Can’t Work Well Without It

Shopping at the mall is never a favorite pastime of mine but it does provide some comic relief to what I see happening in health reform. As I watch teenagers frantically searching for the latest fashion trend, I am reminded that this tendency to grab onto the latest and greatest new fad is at play…

May 21, 2009

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Cathy Hope

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

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…

May 20, 2009

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Flurry of Activity On Health Reform Front Continues

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…

May 19, 2009

Presentations

The Last Piece of the Puzzle

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

May 16, 2009

Research & Reports

Fact Sheet on Senate Finance Committee’s Coverage Options paper

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

May 12, 2009

Research & Reports

The Last Piece of the Puzzle

By Jocelyn Guyer The nation has made significant progress in covering children, but nine million children still lack insurance and many more are at risk of not receiving the health care services that they need to develop and grow properly. To address these issues, children will need to be an integral part of the much…

May 5, 2009

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What does the Senate Finance Committee’s new proposal for transforming the health care delivery system mean for children?

By Jocelyn Guyer Nothing! (If I were cooler, I could have twittered this response in.) Seriously. The Senate Finance Committee’s nearly 50-page description of policy options for “Transforming the Health Care Delivery System: Proposals to Improve Patient Care and Reduce Health Care Costs” literally has nothing to say about the steps that could be taken…

May 1, 2009

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Reading the Tea Leaves on Health Reform

Last week, work on health care reform began in earnest on Capitol Hill. Senators Kennedy and Baucus (the Chairman of the Senate Health Education and Labor Committee and the Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, respectively) began the week by issuing a joint letter about their intent to move health care reform bills, by the end…

April 28, 2009

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Health Reform Update – The Varsity Team is on the Field

By Jocelyn Guyer An overused, but still valid staple of political commentators is “follow the money,” but when it comes to health reform, another useful exercise is to follow the key staffers. In a clear sign that Congress intends to make a full court press on health reform this year, Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman…

April 27, 2009

Presentations

Medicaid and Health Reform: How Will They Work Together?

By Jocelyn Guyer Child Welfare League of America — Presentation Document February 2009

February 19, 2009

Research & Reports

Children in Health Care Reform: Where Things Stand

The country has made significant progress covering children. Health reform has the potential to build upon this success by opening new doorways so that all children have quality and affordable health insurance and providing coverage options to their parents and the other adults in their lives. This fact sheet provides basic information on the coverage…

January 6, 2009

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Fact Sheet on Senator Baucus’ Call to Action

This fact sheet provides a review of the key provisions of Senator Baucus’ white paper on health reform.

December 14, 2008

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Jocelyn Guyer

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