Role of Mothers in Assuring Children Receive COVID-19 Vaccinations
This brief discusses the role that mothers play in managing children's health care needs and mothers' attitudes and concerns about COVID-19 vaccinations.
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Flawed Report Aims to Undercut Established Research on Abortion Pill Safety, Plus How a Federal Initiative to Study Autism May Overemphasize Environmental Toxins — The Monitor
FeatureThis volume highlights how a report criticized for flawed methodology is influencing renewed efforts to restrict access to mifepristone; a federal plan to study the causes of autism that could be contributing to stigma by over-emphasizing environmental toxins; and the resurgence of false claims about fetal tissue in vaccines.
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Women Take Primary Responsibilities for Children’s Medical Needs
FeatureWomen Take Primary Responsibilities for Children’s Medical Needs Download Source Kaiser Family Foundation, 2008 Kaiser Women’s Health Survey
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Access to Care by Health Insurance Status, 2011
FeatureAccess to Care by Health Insurance Status, 2011 Download Source KCMU analysis of 2011 NHIS data
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The Nonelderly Uninsured Population by Age and Parent Status, 2011
FeatureThe Nonelderly Uninsured Population by Age and Parent Status, 2011 Download Source KCMU/ Urban Institute analysis of 2012 ASEC Supplement to the CPS
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Medicaid Enrollees and Expenditures, FFY 2009
FeatureMedicaid Enrollees and Expenditures, FFY 2009 Download Source KCMU/Urban Institute estimates based on data from FFY 2009 MSIS and CMS-64, 2012. MSIS FFY 2008 data were used for PA, UT, and WI, but adjusted to 2009 CMS-64
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Uninsured Rates of Children, by Citizenship Status, 2011
FeatureUninsured Rates of Children, by Citizenship Status, 2011 Download Source KCMU/Urban Institute analysis of March 2011 Current Population Survey, Annual Social and Economic Supplement
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Current Flexibility in Medicaid: An Overview of Federal Standards and State Options
Issue BriefThe Trump Administration and new Congress have indicated that they will seek to cap Medicaid financing through a block grant or per capita cap, reduce federal funding for the program, and offer states increased flexibility to manage their programs within this more limited financing structure. The size of the federal reductions as well as which federal program standards would remain in place and what increased flexibility might be provided to states under such proposals would…
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Key Issues in Children’s Health Coverage
Issue BriefThis brief reviews children’s coverage today and examines what is at stake for children’s coverage in upcoming debates around CHIP funding, repeal and replacement of the ACA, and Medicaid restructuring.
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Why Does the Medicaid Debate Matter? National Data and Voices of People with Medicaid Highlight Medicaid’s Role
Fact SheetPresident Trump and other GOP leaders have called for far-reaching changes to Medicaid, including caps and reductions in federal funding for the program. This snapshot provides data on the role Medicaid plays for different population groups as well as perspectives from individuals with coverage through the program. Medicaid, the nation’s public health insurance program for low-income children, adults, seniors, and people with disabilities, covers 1 in 5 Americans, including many with complex and costly needs…