Health Insurance Coverage of America’s Children
This chartbook provides fundamental facts about children's health insurance coverage. Chartbook (.pdf) Previous Versions: February 2007 (.
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Children and Oral Health: Assessing Needs, Coverage and Access
Issue BriefThis policy brief highlights the prevalence of dental problems among children and examines gaps in oral health coverage and access to dental care, as well as disparities by income and race/ethnicity.
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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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Filling an Urgent Need: Improving Children’s Access to Dental Care in Medicaid and SCHIP
ReportIn October 2007, the Foundation’s Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured and the National Academy for State Health Policy convened a day-long meeting of policy officials and oral health experts to discuss children’s access to dental care in Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and exchange information and perspectives on the…
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Section 1115 Waivers in Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program: An Overview
Issue BriefA new policy brief provides a description of the Section 1115 law, its history, and an overview of how it plays a role in the restructuring of Medicaid and SCHIP.
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CHIP Program Enrollment: December 2000
ReportA new report reveals that CHIP provided coverage for 2.7 million low-income children in December 2000, a 48% increase from December 1999. The report also shows that enrollment in CHIP has consistently increased by roughly 900,000 children per year in its first three years of operation.
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Medicaid and State Budgets: An October 2001 Update
ReportAn update to "Medicaid Budgets Under Stress: Survey Findings for State Fiscal Year 2000, 2001, and 2002." This paper was commissioned to evaluate how several states' fiscal outlooks have changed since September 11.
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COBRA Coverage for Low-Income Unemployed Workers
Fact SheetSummarizes 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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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.