100% Campaign, Health Insurance for Every California Child
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The 100% Campaign, a collaborative effort of Children Now, Children's Defense Fund and The Children's Partnership with primary funding from The California Endowment, was created to ensure that every California child has health insurance.
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Assessing the New Federalism
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"Assessing the New Federalism," an Urban Institute Project, is a multi-year Urban Institute research project to analyze the devolution of responsibility for social programs from the federal government to the states, focusing primarily on health care, income security, job training, and social services.
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Campaign for Coverage
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The number of Campaign for Coverage participants grew to roughly 1,500 hospitals and health systems - each with an exciting story to tell. They found ways to extend coverage to nearly 2.5 million uninsured people and to improve access to health care services for another 3.4 million people.
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Chartbook on Children's Insurance Status
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This chartbook examines demographic and other characteristics of insured and uninsured children in the U.S. It is based on data from the March 1998 Current Population Survey CPS and reflects children’s insurance status during calendar year 1997.
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Children's Defense Fund, an Introduction to CHIP
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Enacted by the U.S. Congress in August 1997, the state Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) is designed primarily to help children in working families with incomes too high to qualify for Medicaid but too low to afford private family coverage.
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CHIP Toolkit
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This community guide is designed to assist local groups across the country in informing families about and enrolling children in the new Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and Medicaid.
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Congress Lifts the Sunset on the "$500 Million Fund"
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Extends Opportunities for States to Ensure Parents and Children
Do Not Lose Health Coverage. A total of $500 million in federal matching funds was made available to states at enhanced rates to implement the delinking of welfare and Medicaid eligibility for families with children.
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Connect for Kids
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Connect for Kids is a virtual encyclopedia of information for adults who want to make their communities better places for kids.
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Covering Kids
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covering kids, a national health access initiative for low-income, uninsured children, is a $47 million program of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to help increase the number of eligible children who benefit from health insurance coverage programs.
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Ensuring Parents and Children Don't Loose Health Coverage
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Welfare reform has resulted in declines in state’s Medicaid caseloads and reduced insurance coverage of eligible children. The 1996 federal welfare reform law established a pool of $500 million in federal matching funds to help states pay for the costs associated with ensuring that children and parents do not lose Medicaid coverage as a result of the new law.
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Families USA
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Families USA is a national nonprofit, non-partisan organization dedicated to the achievement of high-quality, affordable health and long-term care for all Americans. This site includes information on children's health and Medicade. It also contains publications.
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Free & Low-Cost Health Insurance
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The Start Healthy, Stay Healthy campaign is a national outreach effort conducted by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities to identify children from low-income working families who may be eligible for free or low-cost health insurance programs.
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Gaps in Insurance Coverage for Children: A Pre-CHIP Baseline
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Data from the 1997 National Survey of America's Families (NSAF) are analyzed here to estimate the number and composition of children lacking health insurance prior to the implementation of CHIP. Findings show that 9.2 million children ages 18 and under and 2 million individuals ages 19 and 20 lacked insurance coverage in 1997.
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Hawai'i Covering Kids
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Hawaii Covering Kids is a three-year project launched in June 1999 to create a seamless health insurance enrollment process for children eligible for QUEST (a Medicaid program) and State CHIP (Children’s Health Insurance Program).
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Health Insurance and Coordination with School Lunch Programs
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This is the first in a series of issue briefs about some of the innovative methods being explored to offer more children affordable health care. Schools are an obvious place to find children, and states are reporting that sending information about children’s health insurance through the school system is a very effective way to generate applications and enrollment.
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Health Insurance Data, Census
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This site contains information on the current population survey on health insurance coverage: 1998, children's health insurance, low income uninsured children by state and detailed historical tables from the current population survey: 1987-1998.
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Health Insurance Makes a Difference in Health Care
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"The Impact of a Children's Health Insurance Program by Age," as published in Pediatrics, reports health insurance leads to reductions in unmet medical needs, delayed care and restricted childhood activities among all age groups, but especially for older children.
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Healthfinder
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One stop information on federal sources of health information. Information on adoption, asthma, child care, diabetes, medicare, nutrition, pregnancy, prevention, health care, sexually transmitted diseases, tobacco, immunization, mental health, substance abuse, etc.
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Hope for Kids
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HOPE for Kids, a program of HOPE worldwide, is one of the most effective health education and immunization outreach programs in North America with more than 40,000 volunteers active in 107 cities throughout 39 states, Puerto Rico and Canada.
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Insure Kids Now
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Millions of children are eligible for free and low-cost health coverage through state children’s health insurance programs (SCHIP) and Medicaid.
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Making It Clear: Quick Guide to Public Charge
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The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) has summarized the latest "public charge" rules in a new two-page flyer -- "Making It Clear: Quick Guide to Public Charge" -- to help clarify regulations on accessing public benefits and the impact on immigrant "green card" applications.
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Missed Opportunities
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Reviewing the data on Medicaid enrollments for kids, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities' "Missed Opportunities" report argues that "states and the federal government need, in particular, to take steps to assure that changes in welfare policies do not result in children missing out on the coverage for which they are eligible."
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Most Uninsured Children Are in Families Served by Government Programs
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This report is part of the "New Federalism: National Survey of America's Families" series by the Urban Institute. Using estimates drawn from the 1997 National Survey of America's Families (NSAF), this brief examines the potential of certain federal programs for reaching the families of uninsured children.
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National Governor’s Association
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The National Governor’s Association site contains issue papers on a variety of SCHIP issues, children’s issues, including policy papers, links to states, and best practices from state government, grant announcements, and survey instruments.
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National Survey of America's Families - Public Use Data
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The National Survey of America's Families can now be viewed using a simple point-and-click prgram availabe for free on the web. The NSAF Tabulator has data on 33,703 children. Variables include demographic characteristics such as age, sex, race, income, and family structure; health insurance and status; and children's and adults' behanivor and attitudes. The Tabulator will generate national data, as well as state-specific dta for Alabama, California, Colorado, Flroida, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, Texas, Washington, and Wisconsin.
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Presumptive Eligibility for Children
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States that have created a separate CHIP (S-CHIP) program can ensure that health care is immediately available to children who appear to be eligible by allowing schools to grant presumptive eligibility.
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Public Charge
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In an effort to protect the public health and help people become self-sufficient, the Clinton Administration is publishing a proposed rule in the Federal Register on May 26 that clarifies the circumstances under which a non-citizen can receive public benefits without becoming a “public charge” for purposes of admission into the United States, adjustment of status to legal permanent resident, and deportation.
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Real Clout
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"Real Clout" is a manual for community-based activists who are trying to improve health care access by influencing public policy.
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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
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Covering Kids is a three year project funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to identify and enroll eligible children into Medicaid and other health coverage programs. These goals will be accomplished by supporting state-community coalitions to pursue the three goals at the statewide level and to work with local coalitions in two to three pilot sites. The lead organization may be a statewide child advocacy organization, state medical or hospital association, a private coverage program, a state agency, a civic, educational, religious or philanthropic organization, or other group that can assume a statewide leadership role. Each state-community coalition must design both a statewide project and pilot community-based initiatives. Three-year grants support 50 statewide and 167 local coalitions in conducting outreach initiatives and working toward enrollment simplification and coordination of health coverage programs for low-income children. The grants range from $500,000 to $1 million.
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SCHIP -- State Plans
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This Health Care Financing Administration site contains state plans, approval letters, fact sheets and other official correspondence for most State Child Health Insurance Programs. Click on the map to get information for your state.
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SCHIP: NGA's Annual Report 1999
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Two years after the passage SCHIP, all 50 U.S. states, three territories and three commonwealths have submitted plans, received approval from the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), and begun implementation. NGA’s site contains state-by-state reports.
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Snapshots of America’s Families: Variations in Health Care across States
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This paper presents preliminary findings from the 1997 National Survey of America’s Families (NSAF), a household survey providing information on over 100,000 children and non-elderly adults representing the noninstitutionalized civilian population under age 65. The primary focus is on health insurance coverage and several measures of access to care. (NOTE: Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to view this report.)
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State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)
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SCHIP: What the States Are Doing, from the National Conference of State Legislatures. Includes lots of specific state by state information on plans, goals, applications, outreach efforts, funding, etc.
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State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) - Questions
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Question 32(a). When do expenditures under the presumptive eligibility provision of Medicaid qualify for the enhanced match and when do such costs count against the Title XXI allotment? Question 32(b) How are the costs of presumptive eligibility determined that are counted against individual State allotments (2104(d)(1))?
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State Health Insurance Program Information from the Health Care Financing Administration
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HCFA’s informational website on the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). Contains state plan submissions, status reports, state contacts, activity map, plan approval information, enrollment status report, letters to state officials, outreach information and FAQs about SCHIP. This site also has links to all of the SCHIP regulations in the Federal Register. Links to the HCFA “outreach clearinghouse” with tools for states, schools, community organizations, advocates and others.
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State Planning Grants
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Information for grants to encourage States to provide access to affordable health insurance coverage to all citizens by providing States the resources for planning and a supportive policy environment for implementation of these plans.
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The Access Project
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The Access Project views local healthcare initiatives as part of a continuum of reform efforts that need to be better understood, supported and studied. Rather than detracting from state and national reform, local efforts are filling gaps in the system of care for the uninsured and are providing instruction for the development of comprehensive solutions.
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The Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured
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The website for the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, strives to bring increased public awareness and expanded analytic effort to the policy debate over health coverage and access, with a special focus on Medicaid and the uninsured.
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Welfare Information Network
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This site is a Clearinghouse for Information, Policy Analysis & Technical Assistance on Welfare Reform. This is a must see sight! Any type of welfare information imaginable can be found in this one place. Rural issues, evaluation strategies, events, publications, health insurance, and domestic violence are just a few of the sub-links within this site.
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