Medicaid and CHIP Eligibility, Enrollment, Renewal, and Cost Sharing Policies: Findings from a 50-State Survey

This annual 50-state survey provides data on Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) eligibility, enrollment, renewal and cost sharing policies and identifies changes in these policies that occurred in the past year.  This report documents the role Medicaid and CHIP play for low-income children and families and the evolution of these programs under the […]

New Study Finds Severe Consequences For Children And Families If ACA Is Repealed: The Number Of Uninsured Children And Parents Would More Than Double

A new report by leading child health economists at the Urban Institute models a partial repeal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) through reconciliation and its impact on children and parents. The study found that the number of uninsured children would more than double under a partial repeal as compared to current law: an additional […]

Understanding Pending Proposals to Repeal the Affordable Care Act

Impact on Children and Families Top Five Ways ACA Repeal and Medicaid Financing Changes Would Harm our Youngest Children (2/27/17) Radically Restructuring Medicaid Would be Bad for Kids (2/24/17) Nation’s Success in Covering Children is in Peril (2/24/17) Complicated Cassidy-Collins Plan to Replace ACA Falls Short (1/25/17) What Does President Trump’s Executive Order Mean for the Affordable Care Act? (1/23/17) […]

Latino Children’s Coverage Reaches Historic High, But Too Many Remain Uninsured

Recently released data from the U.S. Census Bureau examining health insurance coverage rates in 2015 found that, during the 2013-2015 period, the U.S. experienced the largest two-year decline in uninsurance rates for all children on record. The uninsurance rate for all children declined from 7.1 percent in 2013 to 4.8 percent in 2015. During the […]