By Joe Touschner A new study from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) takes an initial look at how CHIP compares to private health coverage for children. It examined benefits, costs, and access to care in CHIP and made some preliminary comparisons to health plans similar to those offered in marketplaces. GAO found that CHIP is […]
Piloting new ways of doing things makes sense. It’s a way to test whether a concept or idea will work the way it’s envisioned, and fine-tune it based on actual experience. To this extent 13 states (AL, CO, GA, IA, LA, MD, ME, NJ, NY, OK, PA, SC, UT) have spent the past five years […]
By Kamala Allen and Taylor Hendricks, Center for Health Care Strategies “Eleven-year-old Angel has moved from one foster home to another since age six. His mother struggles with heroin addiction, his father is deceased, and he rarely sees his three siblings who live in separate foster homes. Angel has a hard time concentrating in school […]
Earlier I wrote about progress in the Senate on the Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) repeal, or “doc fix,” which passed the Finance committee with the Medicaid extenders intact. Since time was running out for the House and Senate to agree on the exact terms for a permanent SGR fix, the Murray-Ryan budget agreement on […]
By Tara Mancini A new report from the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured (KCMU) indicates that a little more than half (53%) of uninsured people of color have family income at or below 138% and therefore should qualify for Medicaid in 2014 as the ACA originally intended. Yet, almost a third (30%) of […]
By Martha Heberlein Today, Health Affairs released a paper detailing a new (and in our opinion a very exciting!) survey – the Health Reform Monitoring Survey (HRMS) – designed by the Urban Institute. This internet-based survey is intended to provide rapid-cycle feedback on changes under the ACA. The goal is to replicate key outcome measures […]
