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New Reports Show Aggressive Push by States To Expand Coverage, but Indicate Economy and New Rules May Compromise Efforts
New reports released by the Foundation's Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured describe aggressive efforts by states in the past year and a half to expand coverage to low-income children and their families, but the actions may be curtailed as a deteriorating economic climate and new limits on federal assistance take effect.

Determining Income Eligibility in Children’s Health Coverage Programs: How States Use Disregards in Children’s Medicaid and SCHIP
A new brief describes the purpose of income disregards when considering the Medicaid or SCHIP eligibility of children in working families and examines the implications of prohibiting such disregards for health coverage in public programs.

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Headed for a Crunch: An Update on Medicaid Spending, Coverage and Policy Heading into an Economic Downturn -- September 2008

This eighth annual 50-state survey on Medicaid and state budget actions finds enrollment began to rise in fiscal year 2008 with states expecting even larger increases for fiscal year 2009. With the increased enrollment, Medicaid spending is also rising more rapidly than in the recent past.

States Moving Towards Comprehensive Health Care Reform -- August 2008

With the problem of the uninsured continuing to grow, states have taken the lead in developing proposals to reform of their health care systems with the goal of significantly increasing the number of people with health coverage. An interactive map and related summaries of plans track which states have enacted or are planning comprehensive initiatives to cover their uninsured population.

Dental Coverage and Care for Low-Income Children: The Role of Medicaid and SCHIP -- July 2008

This fact sheet provides an overview of dental care access and coverage for low-income children.

Choosing Premium Assistance: What Does State Experience Tell Us? -- June 2008

This brief examines six state premium assistance programs (in Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Oregon, Utah, and Virginia) that allow families to choose to receive a subsidy to apply to the purchase of private coverage rather than to receive direct Medicaid or SCHIP coverage.

Kaiser Fast Facts -- May 2008
“Kaiser Fast Facts” features “QuickTakes” and “Kaiser Slides” – two tools that provide direct access to facts, data and slides about the nation's health care system and programs, in an easy-to-use format. “QuickTakes” presents an inventory of facts-at-a-glance and "Kaiser Slides" allows Web visitors to freely view, download and print graphics and tables of health policy statistics and trends.

Determining Income Eligibility in Children’s Health Coverage Programs: How States Use Disregards in Children’s Medicaid and SCHIP -- May 2008

This brief describes the purpose of income disregards when considering the Medicaid or SCHIP eligibility of children in working families and examines the implications of prohibiting such disregards for health coverage in public programs.

New Reports Show Aggressive Push by States To Expand Coverage, but Indicate Economy and New Rules May Compromise Efforts -- January 2008
New reports describe aggressive efforts by states in the past year and a half to expand coverage to low-income children and their families, but the actions may be curtailed due a failure to reauthorize the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and a deteriorating economic climate.

Health Coverage for Children and Families in Medicaid and SCHIP: State Efforts Face New Hurdles -- January 2008

The seventh annual 50-state survey of eligibility rules, enrollment and renewal procedures, and cost-sharing practices in Medicaid and SCHIP for children and families reports that nearly two-thirds of states expanded access to Medicaid and SCHIP between July 2006 and January 2008.

State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP): Reauthorization History -- January 2008

This fact sheet provides an overview of the reauthorization debate for the State Children's Health Insurance Program in 2007.

Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2007 (CHIPRA): The revised CHIPRA Bill (H.R. 3963) Compared to the Original Bill (H.R. 976) -- November 2007

This brief provides an overview of the most recent Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2007 (CHIPRA) bill and summarizes changes from the original version of the bill.

This fact sheet provides an overview of dental care access and coverage for low-income children.

“Kaiser Fast Facts” features “QuickTakes” and “Kaiser Slides” – two tools that provide direct access to facts, data and slides about the nation's health care system and programs, in an easy-to-use format. “QuickTakes” presents an inventory of facts-at-a-glance and "Kaiser Slides" allows Web visitors to freely view, download and print graphics and tables of health policy statistics and trends.

New reports describe aggressive efforts by states in the past year and a half to expand coverage to low-income children and their families, but the actions may be curtailed due a failure to reauthorize the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and a deteriorating economic climate.

This fact sheet provides an overview of the reauthorization debate for the State Children's Health Insurance Program in 2007.

This brief provides an overview of the most recent Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2007 (CHIPRA) bill and summarizes changes from the original version of the bill.

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Medicaid/SCHIP: Children

Whether children are publicly or private insured, having coverage has been shown to increase their access to care, and ultimately their health. More than two in five children reside in low-income families where they often lack access to employer-based coverage. For these children, the Medicaid and SCHIP programs play a central role in providing coverage. In fiscal year 2002, the Medicaid program covered more than 25 million children and SCHIP covered more than five million. Together, these two publicly-subsidized health insurance programs provide coverage to close to half of all low-income children in the United States. During the recent economic downturn, the health insurance coverage rates of children remained relatively steady due in large part to the stabilizing effect of public programs even as their parents and other adults experienced increases in their uninsured rates.