Eligibility & Enrollment
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House Energy and Commerce Committee Passes Health Reform Bill: Highlights for Children and Families
Friday evening the Energy and Commerce Committee approved H.R. 3200, America’s Affordable Health Choices Act. The bill included the amendments and changes I described in my Friday post, including those designed to secure the votes of some of the “Blue Dog” Democrats on the committee without alienating progressive members. The House will now merge this…
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The Health Care Game of Chance: A Tale of Two Families
Some of you may have been listening to the Senate HELP Committee hearings this week on its health reform proposal, the Affordable Health Choices Act. There was a lot of talking going on, making it hard at times to see “the forest through the trees.” But Senator Dodd’s opening statement provided some clarity when he…
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Pay Attention to Children in Health Reform!
Kay Johnson Kay Johnson has been a leader in child health policy for 25 years. She is a Research Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Dartmouth Medical School and a Lecturer in Health Policy at the George Washington University. She also is president of Johnson Group Consulting. With passage of CHIPRA, federal policymakers may be tempted…
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The Last Piece of the Puzzle
By Jocelyn Guyer Center for American Progress — Presentation Document May 2009
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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.
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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…
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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…
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Health Reform: Children and Medicaid
Author: Cindy Mann American Academy of Pediatrics — Presentation Document April 2009
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Family Coverage: Covering Parents Along with Their Children
While much progress has been made over the last decade in lowering the rate of uninsured children, the uninsured rate for parents remains significantly higher than for their children—and it has been growing rather than declining. States, however, can take steps similar to those that have been taken on behalf of children to expand coverage…
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Reaching Eligible but Uninsured Children in Medicaid and SCHIP
One of the most important steps a state can take to provide health coverage to its children is to reach uninsured children who already qualify for Medicaid or the SCHIP. Some six million children who are uninsured qualify for the two programs, representing close to seven in ten of all uninsured children. The vast majority…
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Program Design Snapshot: State Buy-in Programs for Children
Child buy-in programs allow families with incomes in excess of a state’s Medicaid/SCHIP eligibility levels to purchase insurance for their children through the public plan. This short brief reviews state child buy-in programs, and provides an overview of issues that states must consider when implementing a program. It shows that while enrollment in the programs…
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Building on a Solid Foundation: Medicaid’s Role in a Reformed Health Care System
By Martha Heberlein Health care reform is once again a front and center issue – at the White House and in the halls of Congress, in state capitols and corporate boardrooms, and around kitchen tables across America. Covering the uninsured, reigning in health care costs, and obtaining better quality and value for our health care…
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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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Washington State: Coverage to All Children
Beginning in February 2009, Washington began enrolling children with family incomes up to 300 percent of the federal poverty level (FPL) in its new Apple Health for Kids program. The implementation of this expansion is only the most recent phase of a comprehensive effort to cover all children that began over 2 years ago when…
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Medicaid and Health Reform: How Will They Work Together?
By Jocelyn Guyer Child Welfare League of America — Presentation Document February 2009
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The Impact of Health Reform on Public Programs
Author: Cindy Mann National Health Policy Forum – Presentation Document February 2009
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State Child Buy-In Programs: A Snapshot
Author: Dawn Horner Families USA — Presentation Document January 2009
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Moving Forward in Uncertain Times
Author: Cindy Mann American Hospital Association — Presentation Document January 2009
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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…
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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.