Eligibility & Enrollment

Senate Finance Committee Moves Forward

Its been a busy week here in Washington with action on health care reform. All eyes were on the Senate Finance Committee, which, as Jocelyn Guyer blogged about last week, started working on their markup of the bill. The Committee is in its second week of mark-up with hundreds of amendments and is likely to […]

Postcards from CCF — Tennessee

This month, CCF is heading to Nashville, Tennessee to listen to the new beat coming out of “Music City, USA.” Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen recently changed his tune and announced that on March 1, enrollment will resume for CoverKids, the state’s CHIP program. The Governor had frozen enrollment in November but, after a public outcry, […]

Access to Care for Children in Medicaid

Medicaidʼs Substantial Coverage Role for Children Medicaid covers more than 23 million children, more than one-quarter of all children, and more than half of low income children.1 Between 1997 and 2006, the proportion of low-income uninsured children fell from to 23 percent to 15 percent;2 success that is largely attributable to the role that Medicaid […]