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  • The Future of Medi-Cal: Challenges at the Federal, State, and County Level

    Issue Brief

    This issue brief explores how California and other states are attempting to preserve a meaningful set of benefits under Medicaid during the current budget crisis, when services are most needed and state resources are most scarce. This brief is being distributed in Sacramento at the latest California Health Policy Roundtable on Tuesday, May 13, 2003. Invitation to the California Health Policy Roundtable Issue Brief: Presentation by Victoria Wachino, Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured…

  • Health Insurance Premiums and Cost-Sharing: Findings from the Research on Low-Income Populations

    Issue Brief

    Health Insurance Premiums and Cost-Sharing: Findings from the Research on Low-Income Populations This policy brief reviews studies on the impact of premiums and cost-sharing, particularly on low-income populations, and finds that premiums generally depressed participation in public programs and cost-sharing affected health utilization, access and outcomes. Policy Brief

  • Simplified Eligibility for Children’s Medicaid in Texas:  A Status Report at Nine Months

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    Simplified Eligibility for Children's Medicaid in Texas: A Status Report at Nine Months This report describes the initial success of Texas new law in removing barriers to children's Medicaid participation and provides the baseline information needed to observe and interpret how the next phase of implementation, the EPSDT mandate, will enhance or undermine the goal of broader coverage of Medicaid-eligible children in Texas. Report

  • Children Discharged from Foster Care:  Strategies to Prevent the Loss of Health Coverage at a Critical Transition

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    This report discusses the importance of maintaining health coverage for children who are discharged from foster care and presents strategies that state child welfare and Medicaid agencies can employ to reach this goal. In addition, the report also addresses the needs of children who age out of the foster care system at age 18, and discusses state options to expand health coverage to this group. Report

  • SCHIP Program Enrollment: June 2002 Update

    Report

    This report presents information on the number of children enrolled in SCHIP for each state, for specific months from 1998 to June 2002. As of June 2002, the SCHIP program covered 3.6 million low-income children. An increase of 571,000 from the previous June. REPORT Download

  • Disability, Health Coverage, and Welfare Reform

    Report

    This report analyzes data from a survey of 42 low-income families with children with moderate or severe disabilities to better understand the impact of welfare reform on health coverage for these families. Report