Public News Service November 20, 2013 By Mary Kuhlman, COLUMBUS, Ohio – Public perception is a bit off when it comes to how well Ohio is doing in improving children’s health coverage. A poll released today from the Georgetown Center for Children and Families shows most people think more children are uninsured and living in poverty. While […]

Wisconsin Public Radio November 20, 2013 By Shamane Mills, A new report indicates that rates of health coverage for children in Wisconsin have remained largely unchanged, even as neighboring states’ rates have improved. In Wisconsin, 4.7 percent of children don’t have health coverage. The rate is good compared to other states, especially in the west […]

Editor’s Note: Our colleagues at the Georgetown University Center for Health Insurance Reform just launched a blog called “CHIRblog”.  Thanks to the support of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, CHIRblog will feature profiles of everyday people across the country who will – or have already – benefited from new consumer protections under the Affordable Care […]

Download the Full Explainer (PDF) On April 2, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services published the second part of a two-part final rule that simplifies the eligibility and enrollment processes for Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and the Basic Health Program (BHP).1 The rule eliminates certain access barriers for children enrolled […]

Just in time for Christmas, and more importantly in time to get the program up and running by January 1st, federal CMS has granted Iowa’s request for two Section 1115 waivers to allow the state to pursue its own version of Medicaid expansion. This is good news for the more than 100,000 Iowans who stand […]

Today, the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families released their annual 50-state survey on Medicaid and CHIP eligibility, enrollment, renewal and cost-sharing policies. The survey is a “must read” report for anyone interested in health care policy and its impact on low-income children and families across the country.  Tricia […]

One of the more mystical sounding acronyms receiving a lot of attention in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is MAGI or Modified Adjusted Gross Income. MAGI is a way of defining income rooted in tax law and, along with the size of the tax filing unit (to determine household size), will be used to evaluate […]

KTVZ October 26, 2012 The number of uninsured children in Oregon decreased by 3.1 percent from 2009 to 2011, tying Texas for the largest decline in the country, according to a new report by Georgetown University Health Policy Institute’s Center for Children and Families. “We are proud to see that enrollment efforts have succeeded and […]

Three months into the pandemic, Medicaid’s role as the nation’s frontline health insurer has come into sharp relief.  The focus is on the struggles of frontline hospitals, nursing homes, and health care workers; the vertiginous climb in the number of unemployed and uninsured; the threat to the solvency of pediatric and other primary care providers; […]

By Dinah Wiley Immigrant families are among the most in need of health reform, with high rates of uninsurance and poverty despite employment rates as high as those of citizen-headed households.  How will these families fare under health reform?  Though a few federal rules are still undecided, we can safely say that many non-citizens will […]

Introduction As of June 2021, over 40 million children were enrolled in Medicaid or CHIP for their health insurance — the vast majority in Medicaid. From the month prior to the pandemic in February 2020, through June 2021, children’s enrollment increased by 11 percent. Now, about half of the nation’s children are covered by Medicaid […]

As many readers know, this week the annual Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey numbers were released and the number of uninsured persons actually declined for the first time since 2007 – by 1.4 million.  Since 2007 the number of uninsured adults has been growing – this year marks the first turnaround. This bit of good […]

In August I blogged about Arkansas’s waiver proposal to expand Medicaid using the so-called “private option” which actually means newly-eligible Medicaid beneficiaries will be picking plans from the new insurance marketplace established by the Affordable Care Act. The waiver proposal was approved last Friday but a number of pieces are still outstanding. Expecting approval, the […]

It’s that time again – the release of the annual 50-state survey on Medicaid and CHIP eligibility, enrollment, renewal and cost-sharing policies conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured and the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families. Today, my co-authors from Kaiser – Samantha Artiga, Jessica Stephens, and Alexandra […]

By Jocelyn Guyer After an intensive few weeks spent lugging around binders filled with the latest proposed rule on Medicaid and CHIP, we’ve finally done it!  Here is our very best shot at a concise(ish) list of the top issues of concern for kids in the proposed rule.  Comments are due this Thursday and, if […]

The Affordable Care Act is the law of the land – even House Speaker John Boehner affirmed that point in an interview with Diane Sawyer on ABC Nightly News. The countdown clock on implementation is ticking and there are no more time outs left.  States need to move full speed ahead to beat the clock […]

Recently, CCF teamed up with the researchers at the Urban Institute to take a first look at how the Affordable Care Act is impacting the rate of uninsured children. The high level data indicates that, so far, there has been no detectable change nationally, although children’s uninsured rates remains at historically low levels. But state […]

As we like to say here inside the Beltway, its all about your baseline… So I am actually somewhat pleasantly surprised by the numbers HHS just released. I had very low expectations like everyone else. What seems encouraging to me is the level of interest – between the state and federal marketplace websites there have […]

Late last week Michigan filed a waiver amendment with CMS that provides more detail on what they are planning in their Medicaid expansion, which they call “Healthy Michigan.”  The waiver amendment is a huge step forward in covering low-income adults, so here’s the good news and a few elements we plan to keep our eye […]

Washington, D.C. – The number of children living in poverty remained high yet the number of uninsured children decreased from 6.4 million in 2009 to 5.5 million in 2011, according to a new report by Georgetown University Health Policy Institute’s Center for Children and Families. This builds on the good news reported for young adult […]