Health Insurance Coverage of Low-Wage Workers
This fact sheet summarizes the reasons why low-wage workers are less likely to have employer-sponsored health insurance than workers with higher incomes and therefore, are more likely to be uninsured.
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Medicare Chartbook
ReportThe Medicare Chartbook includes data and background information critical to understanding the Medicare program and the challenges it faces in keeping up with the rising costs of health care and in ensuring the program s future financial security.
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Maintaining Health Coverage and Securing the Medicaid Safety Net in a Sluggish Economy
Fact SheetThe current economy is a key concern as federal and state leaders worry about the expected rise in unemployment and the related loss of employer health coverage.
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The North Carolina Health Choice Enrollment Freeze of 2001: Findings in Brief
ReportThis report analyzes enrollment data and conveys focus group findings about the impact of North Carolina's freezing enrollment in their SCHIP program.
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SCHIP Program Enrollment: June 2002 Update
ReportThis 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.
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How Well Does the Employment-Based Health Insurance System Work for Low-Income Families?
Other PostPart 2 Even when insurance is offered to low-wage workers, its costs to these workers may be substantial, and, for some, a barrier to coverage. In 1996, workers had to contribute an average of $1,615 per year for family coverage, or about 30% of the total premium.
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Transitional Medical Assistance (TMA): Medicaid Issue Update
Fact SheetThis fact sheet presents the key questions and answers regarding transitional medical assistance as a part of the Medicaid program and its relationship to Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF), the welfare program.
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The New Challenge of the Uninsured: Coverage in the Current Economy
Event Date:EventDiane Rowland, executive director of the Commission, testified to the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health about health coverage for the uninsured in the current economy and discussed the special challenges of providing them coverage during uncertain economic times. Please note: the video is no longer available.
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Reaching Uninsured Children Through Medicaid: If You Build It Right, They Will Come
ReportThis report analyzes enrollment data of recent years and draws on state experiences to outline the key strategies that will lead to successful enrollment in public health coverage programs and finds that improving enrollment in Medicaid drives improved overall enrollment into a state s public coverage programs.
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The Financing of Illinois’ Prescription Drug Demonstration Project
Issue BriefThis policy brief describes the financing of Illinois' new Medicaid prescription drug waiver.