Most uninsured children are eligible for Medicaid or CHIP but are not yet enrolled so finding them and helping them enroll is critical to successfully reducing the uninsured rate for children. As my colleague Tricia Brooks has pointed out many times, it is no secret that sustained outreach and enrollment support is the key to […]
An occasional line among opponents of states using federal Medicaid dollars to close the health coverage gap is that some states have been too successful in enrolling people in this new health coverage option – the uninsured rate in expansion states is apparently falling too quickly to suit some people. I wrote about the puzzling inconsistencies […]
Starting this week, Mayor Adam O’Neal of Belhaven began leading his second 283 mile walk from his small town in North Carolina to Washington DC. This year, several state health care advocates we know and admire including Laura Guerra-Cardus of the Children’s Defense Fund Texas, five other Texans and repeat walkers Adam Linker and Nicole […]
