The North Carolina Health Choice Enrollment Freeze of 2001: Findings in Brief
This 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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Disability, Health Coverage, and Welfare Reform
ReportThis 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.
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Medicaid’s Role in Covering Families
Other PostMedicaid's Role in Covering Families Twelve years ago, the U.S. Congress passed the law requiring that by the end of fiscal year 2002, states would complete a series of incremental steps to ensure all children in families with incomes at or below the federal poverty line would have Medicaid coverage.
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New York’s Disaster Relief Medicaid: Insights and Implications for Covering Low-Income People
ReportThis focus group study is of New Yorkers who enrolled in Disaster Relief Medicaid (DRM), a temporary public health insurance program created after the September 11th attacks. It is based on findings from six focus groups conducted with Hispanic, Chinese, and African American New Yorkers.
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Medicare Beneficiaries and Their Assets: Implications for Low-Income Programs
ReportThis report, prepared by Marilyn Moon of The Urban Institute and Robert Friedland and Lee Shirey of Georgetown University's Center on an Aging Society, reviews the income and assets of the current Medicare population, provides an overview of asset tests used to determine eligibility for programs assisting low-income Medicare beneficiaries, and considers how alternative policy…
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Welfare, Work and Health Care
ReportAs the U.S. Congress works on legislation to reauthorize Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), the nation's welfare program, the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured cosponsored a briefing on the health-related issues of the reauthorization.
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Women Who Left Welfare: Health Care Coverage, Access, and Use of Health Services
ReportThis brief uses the latest available data from the National Survey of America's Families to assess the relationship of health coverage to work status, health, access and use of health services by women who left welfare in 1997 or after and had not returned by 1999.
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Welfare and Work: How Do They Affect Parents’ Health Care Coverage?
Fact SheetWelfare and Work: How Do They Affect Parents' Health Care Coverage? This fact sheet presents an overview of issues involving health care coverage for parents who are shifting from welfare to the workforce.
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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.