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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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House Tri-Committee Health Reform Bill
It was another eventful week for health reform. You only have to turn on CNN or read the blogs for the political ins and outs. On perhaps the less sexy side of things, we have been busy reading the House’s new 1,018 page health reform bill, the America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009. The…
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Health Reform & Budget Reconciliation – It’s not as simple as it seems!
Edwin Park, Senior Fellow, Center of Budget and Policy Priorities Even as each day brings new details about House and Senate health reform legislation and we all gird ourselves for the race to pass health legislation in each chamber before the August recess, a question might be lingering in the back of your mind: what…
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HHS Announces Long-awaited Request for Outreach Grant Proposals
Yesterday HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Medicaid Director Cindy Mann announced the department’s “Request for Proposals (RFP)” for a first round of outreach grants funded through CHIP reauthorization. Find more information here about this long awaited announcement. It’s encouraging that in the RFP the department has embraced a more appropriate definition of outreach which is…
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The Tri-Committee Health Reform Bill: Implications for Children
By Jocelyn Guyer On Friday, almost two weeks ago now, the three major committees in the House with jurisdiction over health reform put out a draft legislative proposal, known as “The Tri-Committee bill.” We’ve now read the 852-page document a few times, and think it would make giant strides in providing access to coverage to…
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Children’s Special Health Care Needs Can Bankrupt Families
Meg Comeau, Project Director for the Catalyst Center, Boston University School of Public Health As policymakers consider health reform, they will need to consider the needs of families raising children with special health care needs. These families are not only hit hard in the pocketbook, they face overwhelming bureaucratic obstacles to coverage. We asked…
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Oregon Isn’t Waiting for Health Reform to Pass In Order to Help Uninsured Children and Families
Guest Blogger, Cathy Kaufman, Communications and Policy Director at Children First for Oregon Liz Arjun has blogged about the fact that CHIPRA has encouraged many states to move forward on health coverage for children despite facing difficult budgetary climates. We have posted guest blogs from children’s health coverage experts in Colorado and Kansas, two of…
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Check out CAP’s YouTube Video and Interactive Map
The creative people at the Center for American Progress have been busy. They have managed to boil down two complex topics into user-friendly tools. First, they released a report with an interactive map demonstrating the economic impact of “uninsurance” (the word is so new it is not in your dictionary yet) on each state. Then…
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The Health Reform Roller Coaster
Whew! It seems impossible to keep up with all the recent activity related to health reform these days – and it seems like the next two weeks are going to be even more action-packed. To help me (and all of you) stay on top of all the goings on here in DC, we’ve put together…
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The Last Piece of the Puzzle: What do Children Need from Health Reform?
You can’t pick up a paper (some of us do still read them) or read a blog today without hearing about health reform. In fact, you have read on our blog about the flurry of activity on the Hill. The good news is that no longer is the argument focused on whether health reform is…
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Children’s Issues and Effortless Enrollment are Building Momentum in Health Reform
By Jocelyn Guyer The Center for Children and Families staff is scurrying as fast as a NASCAR pit crew as two of our top issues are building momentum. We are participating in back-to-back Capitol Hill forums on addressing children’s unique health needs in health reform and removing bureaucratic hurdles to enrollment in Medicaid and CHIP.…
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When will public health insurance programs catch up with the rest of the online world?
If technology were not so prolific, there would be no reason to write this blog. My kids grew up using computers and cannot remember a time when technology was not a focal point of everyday life. From researching homework (or health policy) to balancing your checkbook and paying bills, from shopping for hard-to-find sizes to…
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Medicaid is as Essential to Health Reform as a Pair of Blue Jeans is to Your Wardrobe – Exchanges Can’t Work Well Without It
Shopping at the mall is never a favorite pastime of mine but it does provide some comic relief to what I see happening in health reform. As I watch teenagers frantically searching for the latest fashion trend, I am reminded that this tendency to grab onto the latest and greatest new fad is at play…
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Effortless Enrollment Saves Taxpayers $ and Helps Uninsured Children Access Medicaid and CHIP
Robert Nelb, MPH Candidate 2009, Yale University, Senior Fellow, The Roosevelt Institution As readers of this blog know, we became fans of Nelb’s work when we came across a letter-to-the-editor he wrote regarding pointless paperwork. Robert is a senior fellow for The Roosevelt Institution and the winner of the Brookings Institution’s Hamilton Project Economic Policy…
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Flurry of Activity On Health Reform Front Continues
By Jocelyn Guyer When my third child was born just 20 months after our twins, I was briefly the mom of three kids under the age of two. Not as tough as the challenge facing Jon and Kate plus Eight or the octuplet mom, but enough to make me think that my life would never…
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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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What does the Senate Finance Committee’s new proposal for transforming the health care delivery system mean for children?
By Jocelyn Guyer Nothing! (If I were cooler, I could have twittered this response in.) Seriously. The Senate Finance Committee’s nearly 50-page description of policy options for “Transforming the Health Care Delivery System: Proposals to Improve Patient Care and Reduce Health Care Costs” literally has nothing to say about the steps that could be taken…
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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…