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  • Medicaid Facts: Medicaid’s Role for Children

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    Medicaid Facts: Medicaid's Role for Children This fact sheet provides an overview of children's eligibility and coverage under Medicaid, summarizes Mediciad benefits and expenditures for children, and highlights key issues facing the program as it continues to serve children. Fact Sheet Fact Sheet

  • The Impact of Manged Care Legislation: An Analysis of Five Legislative Proposals from California – Report

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    The Impact of Managed Care Legislation: An Analysis of Five Legislative Proposals from California Health Policy Economics GroupPrice Waterhouse LLP November, 1997 Executive Summary Managed care has grown tremendously in recent years. From 1988 to 1997, at firms with 200 or more employees, the proportion of employees enrolled in HMOs nationwide increased from 18 percent to 33 percent. The presence of managed care varies by state across the country but is particularly strong in California…

  • Small Employers and Health Insurance and State Reforms of Small Group Health Insurance – Fact Sheet

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    State Reforms of Small Group Health Insurance Between 1989 and 1995, 45 states enacted laws to make health insurance more accessible and attractive to small businesses. The small group market was targeted for reform because about half of all uninsured workers are either self-employed or working in firms with fewer than 25 employees (EBRI, 1996). The problem is that only about half of all small firms offer health insurance (Figure 1). In 1995, 53% of…

  • Estimated Cost of a Child Health Program in California – Report

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    Estimated Cost of a Child Health Program in California Prepared by Gordon R. Trapnell, F.S.A., Actuarial Research Corporation For the Kaiser Family Foundation September 10, 1997 Summary The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 created a new federal/state program to cover uninsured children. The new federal legislation provides states with a substantial amount of flexibility in designing their child health insurance programs by expanding their existing Medicaid programs, creating new state child health insurance programs, or…

  • Estimated Cost of a Child Health Program in California

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    To provide an independent source of information about the cost of covering uninsured children in California, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation commissioned an analysis by the Actuarial ResearchCorporation (ARC), which provides actuarial assistanceto a variety of public and private clients. ARC's analysis suggests that expanding California's Medicaid program (which is called Medi-Cal) would be substantially less expensive than developing a new private insurance program as proposed. Report Report

  • Small Employers and Health Insurance and State Reforms of Small Group Health Insurance – Fact Sheet

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    Small Employers and Health Insurance Nearly half of all uninsured workers are either self-employed or work for firms with fewer than 25 employees; another 14% are in firms with 25-99 workers (EBRI, 1996). Differences in health coverage depending on the size and type of businesses have existed for years. Today, only half of small businesses sponsor health benefits. Health insurance among small employers has changed dramatically during the first half of the 1990s, however. More…

  • Small Employers and Health Insurance and State Reforms of Small Group Health Insurance

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    Fact sheets on health insurance among small employers and state reforms of small group health insurance. Fact Sheet: Small Employers and Health Insurance Fact Sheet: Small Employers and Health Insurance Fact Sheet: State Reforms of Small Group Health Insurance Fact Sheet: State Reforms of Small Group Health Insurance