COBRA Coverage for Low-Income Unemployed Workers
Summarizes the COBRA health coverage law, how it is administered, what its limitations are, and how it impacts low-income workers.
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Covering the Low-Income Uninsured: Assessing the Alternatives
ReportThis issue brief describes and analyzes expansions of Medicaid and SCHIP, tax credits for individually-purchased insurance, and tax credits for employment-based health insurance as options to expand health coverage of the low-income population.
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The New Medicaid and CHIP Waiver Initiatives
ReportA new report describes past waiver activity, the principles of the new HIFA initiative, and related policy implications.
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State Variation in Medicaid Pharmacy Benefit Use Among Dual-Eligible Beneficiaries
ReportThis study examines Medicaid pharmacy benefit use and spending among beneficiaries dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid in 10 states by analyzing 1995 enrollment and claims data from a new 12-state database.
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Legislative Summary: State Children’s Health Insurance Program – Fact Sheet
Fact SheetState Children's Health Insurance Program Summary November 1997 Nearly 10 million children are uninsured, often resulting in difficulties in obtaining needed health care. To expand coverage to low-income uninsured children, Congress enacted the State Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) as part of the Balanced Budget Act (BBA) of 1997 (P.L. 105-33).
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Trends and Indicators in the Changing Health Care Marketplace: Chartbook
ReportThis chartbook provides an overview of health care spending and trends in health plan enrollment. It highlights health insurance premiums and costs, health insurance benefits, the structure of the health care market.
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A Profile of the Low-Income Uninsured
Issue BriefThis policy brief provides an overview of the low-income, uninsured population. Based on an analysis of the March 1998 Current Population Survey, the report discusses the demographic characteristics of this vulnerable population.
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Managed Care for Low-Income Populations with Special Needs: The Tennessee Experience
ReportThis report focuses on Tennessee's experience in moving their disabled Medicaid beneficiaries into managed care.
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Employment-Based Health Insurance Coverage and its Decline:-2134
ReportEmployment-Based Health Insurance Coverage and its Decline:The Growing Plight of Low-Wage Workers This background paper examines the increase in uninsured workers and the growing disparity in health insurance coverage between low- and high-wage workers.
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Outpatient Prescription Drug Benefits Under Medicaid: Detailed Case Studies
ReportA report on Indiana, Massachusetts, Montana, North Carolina, Oregon, and Pennsylvania prescription drug programs illustrating the issues and challenges for delivering drugs via Medicaid, managed care, and pharmaceutical assistance programs.