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New Analysis Shows Effect of Rising Unemployment on Health Coverage, Medicaid and SCHIP Spending and Enrollment Every one percentage point rise in the unemployment rate leads to a 1.1 million increase in the uninsured population and a one million increase in Medicaid and SCHIP enrollment, according to a new Kaiser analysis. Another report analyzes the history of Medicaid during recent economic downturns. Diane Rowland Testifies Before Congress on Health Care Affordability and the Uninsured Diane Rowland, executive vice president of the Foundation, testified before the Health Subcommittee of the U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means about decreases in the availability, affordability and scope of health insurance coverage. New Reports Examine Consumer Direction for Personal Assistance Services in Four States' Medicaid Programs With a shift towards providing long-term services and supports in the community, policy interest in Medicaid consumer direction of personal assistance services (CD-PAS) has grown. Two new reports examine Medicaid’s role in providing CD-PAS in four states: California, Colorado, New York and Virginia. *Study Featured in Health Affairs* Examines the Impact of the Economy on Health Insurance Coverage** A Foundation study featured as a web-exclusive Health Affairs article examines health coverage trends from 2000-2006 showing that over this period the dominant factor contributing to a rise in the uninsured population has been the decline in employer-sponsored insurance, even as the economy rebounded from the last recession. States Expanded Coverage for Children in 2007, But the Economy and New Federal Rules May Compromise Those Efforts To Reduce The Uninsured 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.

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

New Analysis Shows Effect of Rising Unemployment on Health Coverage, Medicaid and SCHIP Spending and Enrollment -- April 2008

Medicaid, SCHIP and Economic Downturn: Policy Challenges and Policy Responses -- April 2008

Medicaid in a Declining Economy: Limited Approaches for States to Control Spending -- April 2008

Health Care Affordability and the Uninsured -- April 2008

States Moving Towards Comprehensive Health Care Reform -- April 2008

New Reports Examine Consumer Direction for Personal Assistance Services in Four States' Medicaid Programs -- March 2008

Consumer Direction of Personal Assistance Services in Medicaid: A Review of Four State Programs -- March 2008

Consumer Direction of Personal Assistance Services Programs in Medicaid: Insights from Enrollees in Four States -- March 2008

Healthy San Francisco -- March 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.

This analysis finds that every one percentage point rise in the unemployment rate leads to a 1.1 million increase in the uninsured population and a one million increase in Medicaid and SCHIP enrollment. Another report analyzes the history of Medicaid during recent economic downturns.

This analysis projects the implications of an economic downturn for health coverage and state programs.

This brief analyzes results from annual 50-state budget surveys of Medicaid directors from 2003 to 2007 to determine how past actions by states and the federal government may impact Medicaid programs during the current economic downturn.

Diane Rowland, executive vice president of the Foundation, testified before the Health Subcommittee of the U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means about the growing share of Americans who are uninsured and without adequate health insurance coverage

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.

With a shift towards providing long-term services and supports in the community, policy interest in Medicaid consumer direction of personal assistance services (CD-PAS) has grown. Two new reports examine Medicaid’s role in providing CD-PAS in four states: California, Colorado, New York and Virginia.

This report examines consumer direction of personal assistance services in four states' Medicaid programs. Its findings are based on interviews with program administrators from California, Colorado, New York and Virginia.

This report examines consumer direction of personal assistance services in four states' Medicaid programs. Its findings are based focus group interviews with CD-PAS enrollees from California, Colorado, New York and Virginia.

In 2007, San Francisco became the first city in the nation to begin implementation of a plan to provide health care services to all uninsured residents. This fact sheet summarizes Healthy San Francisco, how it came to be, and key policy issues facing the program.

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