Medicaid as a Platform for Broader Health Reform: Supporting High-Need and Low-Income Populations
Medicaid is the health insurance safety net for nearly 60 million of the nation's poorest and sickest individuals.
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The Coverage and Cost Impacts of Expanding Medicaid
ReportThis paper quantifies the impacts on coverage and cost of expanding Medicaid to cover more of the low-income uninsured, including adults, at various income levels and with improved participation rates.
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Community Care of North Carolina: Putting Health Reform Ideas into Practice in Medicaid
Issue BriefThis policy brief examines the structure and experience of Community Care of North Carolina, an enhanced medical home model of care that North Carolina began implementing in 1998 as part of its Medicaid program.
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New Kaiser Resources Examine Medicaid as a Platform for Health Reform
Issue BriefThese related research papers examine the policy opportunities for expanding Medicaid to cover more low-income and high-need people in ways that would enable the program to serve as a platform for larger national health reform efforts.
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Expanding Health Coverage for Low-Income Adults: Filling the Gaps in Medicaid Eligibility
Issue BriefLow-income adults (those with incomes below 200 percent of poverty, or $33,200 for a family of three in 2007) account for just over half of the non-elderly uninsured in the United States.
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Congressional Testimony on Expanding Health Care Coverage
Event Date:EventOn May 5, 2009, the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance held a roundtable discussion on health-care coverage issues as part of its health reform efforts.
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CHIP TIPS: Citizenship Documentation Changes
Issue BriefThis brief, the third in a series, examines changes to citizenship documentation requirements under the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009. The law extends the requirement to document citizenship that applied in Medicaid to CHIP as well.
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CHIP TIPS Series Focuses On New Opportunities For Covering Children Under Medicaid and CHIP
Issue BriefThis series of implementation briefs called “CHIP Tips” examines new opportunities for covering children following the reauthorization and expansion of CHIP in February 2009. Together Medicaid and CHIP provide coverage for more than one in four children in the U.S., yet many others remain eligible but uninsured.
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CHIP TIPS: Medicaid Performance Bonus “5 of 8” Requirements
Issue BriefThis brief, the second in a series, examines the requirements that states must meet to be eligible for the new "performance bonus" available to states that do an especially good job of signing up eligible children for Medicaid.
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CHIP TIPS: Medicaid Performance Bonus
Issue BriefThis brief, the first in a series, examines the new federal "performance bonus" available to states that do an especially good job of signing up eligible children for Medicaid.