Reports by Leighton Ku
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“Crowd-Out” Is Not the Same as Voluntarily Dropping Private Health Insurance for Public Program Coverage
September 27, 2007
As leading health policy experts have explained, under the fragmented U.S. health insurance system, virtually any effort to cover more of the uninsured — including efforts that rely on tax deductions or credits for the purchase of health insurance in the private market, as well as public program expansions — will result in some … -
Collateral Damage: Children Can Lose Coverage When Their Parents Lose Health Insurance
September 17, 2007
A substantial body of research indicates that providing public health insurance coverage to low-income parents is an effective means of improving the enrollment of eligible, but uninsured, low-income children in public programs like Medicaid or SCHIP.[1] A recent study by Dr. Jennifer DeVoe and her colleagues at Oregon Science and Health … -
New Research Shows Simplifying Medicaid Can Reduce Children’s Hospitalizations
June 11, 2007
New research indicates that increasing the continuity of children’s Medicaid coverage reduces subsequent hospitalizations for chronic health conditions like asthma or diabetes. The research — a new study conducted by Dr. Andrew Bindman and his associates at the University of California at San Francisco, which was unveiled at a … -
Comparing Public and Private Health Insurance for Children
May 11, 2007
In considering the pending reauthorization of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), some have recommended that Congress use federal funds to subsidize purchasing private health insurance rather than expanding public health insurance, like Medicaid or SCHIP.[1] Some may reflexively assume that private health insurance is … -
Reducing Disparities in Health Coverage for Legal Immigrant Children and Pregnant Women
Revised April 20, 2007
A key health policy success of the past decade is the substantial reduction in the number of uninsured children, primarily due to improvements in Medicaid and the creation of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).[1] However, while there are fewer uninsured citizen children, the percentage of low-income immigrant children who lack … -
Census Revises Estimates of the Number of Uninsured People
April 5, 2007
On March 23, the Census Bureau announced that it has revised estimates of the number of uninsured people for 2004 and 2005, after it detected an error in how data from its Current Population Survey have been tabulated. The number and percentage of people who were uninsured in 2005 changed from 46.6 million (15.9 percent of the population) to … -
The Administration Again Proposes to Shift Federal Medicaid Costs to States
February 14, 2007
In its new budget, the Administration proposes cuts in federal Medicaid funding that total $24.7 billion over the next five years and $60.9 billion over ten years through a combination of legislative changes and regulatory action. [1] These reductions are more than five times as large over the next five years as the federal Medicaid cuts enacted by the Congress last year … -
Chartbook: Improving Children's Health - The Roles of Medicaid and SCHIP
January 1, 2007
This chartbook summarizes current knowledge about the health insurance coverage and health needs of low-income* children in the United States and the roles that Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) — the joint federal-state, publicly funded health insurance programs for children — play in improving children’s health care access …
