Marketplace
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Children’s Health Coverage Rate Now at Historic High of 95 Percent
Recently released data from the U.S. Census Bureau examining health insurance coverage rates in 2015 find that, for the period 2013-2015, children’s uninsured levels experienced the largest two year decline on record; this decline coincided with the implementation of most of the provisions of the Affordable Care Act. The U.S. saw the rate of uninsured…
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New Marketplace Research: Off-Marketplace Consumers and How Marketplace Enrollees Fare in Expansion and Nonexpansion States
Two new reports released this month on the Marketplace sparked our interest at CCF. The first, a brief from the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, examined the population currently purchasing off-marketplace coverage. The authors estimate that about 6.9 million individuals purchase health insurance in the off-Marketplace individual market. About 2.5 million…
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Creating More Direct Pathways to Health Coverage in Colorado
By Stephanie Brooks, Colorado Covering Kids and Families Colorado Covering Kids and Families’ (CKF) new report, Colorado’s Health Insurance Affordability Programs: Goals to Prioritize and Options to Consider to Create a More Direct Pathway to Health Coverage, is the first in Colorado to document and examine the eligibility and enrollment process in health coverage programs…
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The Affordable Care Act: Efforts to Address Barriers to Health Equity
By Julia Embry, 2018 M.P.P. Candidate, Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy, originally posted on CHIRblog On October 3, the Georgetown University School of Nursing and Health Studies hosted a talk, “Achieving Health Equity: Tools for a National Campaign Against Racism” as a part of their Health Equity Think Tank. Health equity is generally…
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Hand-Wringing Over the Affordable Care Act Forgets How Very Far We Have Come
By Sabrina Corlette, Georgetown University Center on Health Insurance Reforms I call it the “law with nine lives.” The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has faced multiple constitutional challenges, an uncountable number of repeal attempts and a botched roll out. Each time, pundits have predicted that the law would fail. This latest round of news about…
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Future of Children’s Health Coverage Series Brief #2: Rethinking Pediatric Dental Coverage
By Colin Reusch, Children’s Dental Health Project and Joan Alker, Georgetown University Center for Children and Families Last month, a U.S. Senator called children’s dental health “a huge issue people simply don’t think about very often.” Here at Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families and the Children’s Dental Health Project, we think it is time to…
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Fulfilling the Promise of Children’s Dental Coverage
By Colin Reusch, Senior Policy Analyst with the Children’s Dental Health Project, and Joan Alker, Executive Director of the Center for Children and Families Introduction Fulfilling the Promise of Children’s Dental Coverage is the second brief in our Future of Children’s Health Coverage series. The brief, coauthored by Colin Reusch with the Children’s Dental Health Project,…
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Stabilizing the Affordable Care Act Marketplaces: Lessons from Medicare
By Sabrina Corlette and Jack Hoadley, originally posted on CHIRblog The Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) health insurance marketplaces have been buffeted by bad news lately. A number of insurers are raising premium rates; others are withdrawing. But these marketplaces are not the first – nor likely the last – to go through a period of…
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School-Based Outreach for Health Coverage Enrollment: New Guide Highlights Successful Strategies
By Shelby Gonzalez, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Across the country, children are stocking up on school supplies and teachers are preparing their classrooms and lesson plans. In addition to these traditional back-to-school activities, many school administrators and outreach groups are gearing up to raise awareness about the importance of health insurance and help…
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The Future of Children’s Health Coverage
(Updated August 2021) The Affordable Care Act, Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program have made historic progress in reducing the child uninsured rate. Yet some families continue to have difficulty affording coverage and getting their children the care they need. In June of 2016, the Center for Children and Families launched a series of…
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How the New Medicaid/CHIP Managed Care Regulations Seek to Improve Network Adequacy and Access to Services
Thanks to a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, CCF has teamed up with NHeLP to launch a series of explainer briefs that unpack the new Medicaid/CHIP managed care regulations. Three briefs in the series have been released already: Looking at the New Medicaid/CHIP Managed Care Regulations Through a Children’s Lens, Medicaid/CHIP Managed Care…
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Medicaid/CHIP Managed Care Regulations: Network Adequacy and Access to Services
Georgetown University Center for Children and Families (CCF) and the National Health Law Program (NHeLP) have teamed up to bring advocates for children and low-income families critical information about the recently finalized Medicaid and CHIP managed care regulations. This paper is the fourth in the series, and it describes how the new rules assure network…
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New Health Affairs Policy Brief Examines Regulation of Health Plan Provider Networks
By Justin Giovannelli, Kevin Lucia and Sabrina Corlette of the Georgetown University Center on Health Insurance Reform Health insurance plans with limited networks of providers are common on the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) health insurance marketplaces. The ACA’s consumer protections, along with online marketplace platforms that encourage insurers to compete on price, have led…
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Fixing the ‘Family Glitch’ Will Boost Economic Security for Low-Income Families and Increase Marketplace Stability
The ‘Family Glitch’ is back in health policy news with an updated estimate of the cost to fix it from researchers at the Urban Institute. This latest research, published in the July issue of Health Affairs, concludes that fixing the family glitch reduces family health spending but increases government costs. No surprise there; fixing the…
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Medicaid Expansion Helps Kids by Helping Moms Get Care for Maternal Depression
By Joan Alker and Olivia Golden Today, CLASP and the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families (CCF) are releasing a new report on the important but often-overlooked link between adult health care coverage and children’s healthy development – specifically, the connection between health care coverage and identifying and treating maternal depression, so that children…
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How the New Medicaid/CHIP Managed Care Regulations Enhance the Beneficiary Experience
Thanks to a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, CCF has teamed with NHeLP to launch a series of explainer briefs to unpack the new Medicaid/CHIP managed care regulations. Two briefs in the series have been released: Looking at the New Medicaid/CHIP Managed Care Regulations Through a Children’s Lens and Medicaid/CHIP Managed Care Rules: Improving Consumer…
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Kentucky’s Proposed Waiver Could Undermine its Successful Medicaid Expansion
By Sean Miskell and Adam Searing Kentucky has released a new Medicaid waiver request for state public comment today. This proposal would allow the state to make significant changes to its existing Medicaid program, affecting not only those newly eligible beneficiaries currently receiving health care through Kentucky’s existing Medicaid expansion, but also others served by…
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Embracing an Opportunity to Measure Value in Children’s Health Care
By Suzanne Brundage, originally posted on www.uhfnyc.org Most people in the child health community—and almost assuredly all readers of “Say Ahhh!”—are aware of the ways in which children’s health and their use of health care services differ from those of the adult population. Key differences include the prominence of prevention efforts in children’s health, the relatively…
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Study: Medicaid Offers Stronger Cost Sharing Protections Compared with Marketplace Coverage
By Sean Miskell When we consider the effects of state decisions not to expand Medicaid, we rightfully focus much of our attention on those that are locked out of coverage. However, a new study by researchers at the Commonwealth Fund considers the experience of consumers above the poverty line that are eligible for subsidized Marketplace…
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A Missed Opportunity to Learn from Wisconsin’s Health Reform Implementation
By Jon Peacock, Wisconsin Council on Children and Families Wisconsin received a federal waiver to make significant changes to BadgerCare in 2014, and one of the conditions of that “demonstration waiver” was that the state would evaluate the effects of the policy changes. A national health policy expert, Sara Rosenbaum, reviewed the planned evaluation and…
