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  • How Schools Have Responded to the Youth Fentanyl Crisis

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    With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, deaths due to drug overdose among adolescents more than doubled, primarily driven by the synthetic opioid, fentanyl. National survey data show that while the percent of adolescents (ages 12-17) with a past year substance use disorder decreased from 2021 to 2024, the share of adolescents with a past year opioid use disorder remained stable over the same period. Additionally, less than one-third of adolescents with a past year opioid use…

  • Bar chart shows the estimated 10-year federal spending reductions from delaying implementation of the Biden administration's Medicare Savings Program rule and the Eligibility and Enrollment rule. Delaying these two Medicaid eligibility rules will cut federal spending by $122 billion and increase the uninsured by 400,000 over ten years

    The Impact of H.R. 1 on Two Medicaid Eligibility Rules

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    This issue brief describes the impact of H.R.1's 10-year delay in implementing provisions in two Medicaid eligibility rules that would have reduced red tape. The delayed rules are projected to decrease federal spending and future Medicaid and CHIP enrollment and increase coverage loss.

  • Health Coverage and Care for Youth in the Juvenile Justice System: The Role of Medicaid and CHIP

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    This brief provides an overview of the health and mental health needs of girls and boys in the juvenile justice system and the role of Medicaid and CHIP in addressing those needs. It focuses on the circumstances of youth who are placed in juvenile justice residential facilities, the discontinuity of Medicaid coverage for those youth, and the options for improving coverage, continuity of care and access to needed services post-discharge, including new opportunities provided by…

  • Next Steps in Covering Uninsured Children: Findings from the Kaiser Survey of Children’s Health Coverage

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    This issue brief provides key findings from the Kaiser Survey of Children's Health Coverage, including that many low- and middle-income working families with an uninsured child do not have access to employer-sponsored health insurance. The telephone survey of parents that was conducted in 2007 to learn more about children’s access to coverage and care and the health care cost-related pressures facing their families. Issue Brief (.pdf)

  • Children and Health Care Reform: Assuring Coverage That Meets Their Health Care Needs

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    This issue brief examines the health care needs and health costs of children and analyzes the specific health care needs of two children in particular, including one with serious health challenges. The findings have implications for the health reform debate as policymakers consider minimum standards for coverage, required cost sharing amounts and limits on covered benefits in health plans. Issue Brief (.pdf)

  • Issues Facing Medicaid and CHIP

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    Cindy Mann, senior fellow of the Commission, testified to the Senate Subcommittee on Public Health of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on how to sustain and expand health care coverage for low-income children and families, and disabled and elderly people in these challenging times. TESTIMONY Download

  • Medicaid Facts: Medicaid’s Role for Children – Fact Sheet

    Fact Sheet

    In 1995, 17.5 million children -- one-quarter of all children under age 18 -- had Medicaid coverage for health care services. Medicaid, the federal/state health program for the poor, pays for a broad range of services for children including well-child care, immunizations, prescription drugs, doctor visits, and hospitalization, and a range of long-term care services for children with disabilities. Medicaid plays a particularly strong role for low-income children, covering two-thirds (64%) of all poor children…

  • Children’s Health Coverage: Medicaid, CHIP, and Next Steps

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    The Alliance for Health Reform and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation co-sponsored this briefing to examine the factors which influence children's coverage. Questions addressed include:What are the trends in private sector coverage? How well are the enrollment simplification and outreach tools that are included in this year’s CHIP reauthorization helping to reach those children who are eligible but unenrolled? How much does a child’s coverage depend on where he or she lives? For more information,…

  • Preserving Recent Progress for Health Coverage of Children and Parents: New Tensions Emerge

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    The latest survey of eligibility rules and enrollment and renewal procedures in all 50 states and the District of Columbia in their Medicaid and SCHIP programs for children and parents. It reflects changes states implemented between January 2002 and April 2003. The current survey also solicited information about states premiums and cost-sharing practices. Report Enrolling Children and Families in Health Coverage: The Promise of Doing More (50 State Survey as of January 2002) >>All 50-State…