CHIP
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More Children Have Health Insurance Thanks to Medicaid, CHIP and ACA
Today we released a report with some encouraging news for America’s children and families. Our report found that despite the fact that childhood poverty remained high, the number of uninsured children declined last year. This builds on the good news on young adult coverage gains reported in September. The Affordable Care Act was behind the young…
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Uninsured Children 2009-2011: Charting the Nation’s Progress
Georgetown University Center for Children and Families researchers analyzed health insurance data from the Census Bureau’s annual American Community Survey to get a closer look at children’s coverage trends. The authors found that the nation continues to make steady progress covering children, despite no reduction in the number of children living in poverty. A strong commitment to…
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Federal Policy Makes a Difference in the Lives of Children and Families
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…
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Children’s Socioeconomic Status and Health: Progress Made and Opportunities to Seize
By Tara Mancini The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) recently released the 2011 edition of their annual report on the health status of the nation. The 35th edition, “Health, United States, 2011,” provides single year data, as well as trend data where it is available. The report…
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Quality Mothers Deserve Quality Care!
By Cynthia Pellegrini, March of Dimes It sounds like a rejected Hallmark card: “Sending you wishes for high quality maternal and child health care, today and every day.” But on Mother’s Day, it’s especially appropriate to talk about healthy women, healthy pregnancies, and healthy babies and children. For many of us in the health policy…
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Sequestration Replacement Cuts Could Unravel the Country’s Success in Covering Children
The House Energy and Commerce Committee, charged with finding offsets to avoid reductions to defense spending, has passed a package of cuts totaling $113 billion. The package includes the elimination of two provisions that have helped to drive down the number of uninsured children to the lowest level on record: 1) repeal of the stability…
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Packard Releases New Report on Impact of Children’s Health Care Advocacy
By Gene Lewit and Liane Wong, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation Those of you who are regular Say Ahhh! readers know that more children have health insurance coverage today than at any point in the nation’s history. The steady growth in children’s health coverage did not happen in a vacuum. State and…
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Where Would 1.1 Million Kids Be Without the CHIPRA Performance Bonus?
By Martha Heberlein When CHIP was reauthorized in 2009, the Performance Bonus was designed to reward states for enrolling more Medicaid-eligible children. As my colleague, Jocelyn Guyer, pointed out on Tuesday, the House Energy and Commerce Committee voted last week to eliminate these bonuses. While this raises questions of whether the Committee supports the intention of connecting…
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Low Income Kids will be Hit Hardest if Effort to Raid CHIPRA Performance Bonuses Succeeds
By Jocelyn Guyer In my house, I have a general policy for my three boys that they can’t use the words “stupid” and “dumb” unless they are truly warranted (e.g., you can’t call your brother stupid for forgetting the napkins when setting the table, but, I let it go when they decided that Anthony Weiner…
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CHIP: Legislation, Regulation and Guidance
Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families conducts research and provides recommendations on the most promising ways to to protect and improve children’s coverage, the important role CHIP plays in the coverage landscape, and the best ways to sustain and build upon the program’s successes.
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Arizona to Open Coverage for More Kids
By Martha Heberlein Health coverage may now be an option for almost 22,000 children currently on the waiting list for CHIP (aka KidsCare) in Arizona under an 1115 waiver amendment approved on April 6th by CMS. The state had been negotiating to establish additional funding streams for uncompensated care payments to certain hospitals and Indian health…
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Data Helps Lead the Way to Reaching Uninsured Children
By Anna Strong, Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families recently published an update on our state’s efforts to ensure that all children have health coverage. The best news in “Crossing the Finish Line: Cutting the Red Tape in 2011” is that, despite a recession and an increasing child poverty…
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Digging in on the Question of Access
By Martha Heberlein As I mentioned last week, a chapter in the most recent MACPAC report focuses on access to care for kids enrolled in Medicaid and CHIP (the technical work was done by our friends at the Urban Institute). The results are like those we’ve seen from other studies that examine the issue – when…
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CHIPRA Implementation
Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families conducts research and provides recommendations on how to sustain the successful children’s coverage program and to build upon its success.
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Program Design
Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families conducts research and provides recommendations on the most promising ways to to protect and improve children’s coverage, the important role CHIP plays in the coverage landscape, and the best ways to sustain and build upon the program’s successes.
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Eligibility And Coverage
Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families conducts research and provides recommendations on the most promising ways to to protect and improve children’s coverage, the important role CHIP plays in the coverage landscape, and the best ways to sustain and build upon the program’s successes.
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New MACPAC Report Released
By Martha Heberlein What an exciting week for data lovers! First the CBO Baseline was released and yesterday MACPAC put out their March report. As usual, it’s chock full of goodies! This edition of the report has 4 chapters (not to mention the always appreciated MACStats!). The first chapter focuses on the more than 9…
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A New Online Path to Children’s Health Care Coverage
Gene Lewit, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation Living in Silicon Valley, I am used to reading about new tech wonders every day. In fact, today, we use the internet to do many things we used to do in person, by snailmail or on the telephone. This trend is encouraged by new technology, but has…
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What’s the Score? CBO’s Updated Baseline Released
By Martha Heberlein I don’t know what you did yesterday, but I spent the day eagerly awaiting CBO’s annual March baseline. As the “official scorekeepers” in Washington, their projections of spending and enrollment in Medicaid, CHIP, and coverage under the exchanges carry a lot of weight. Besides, who wouldn’t love the neat little tables they produce…