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Second Children's Health Bill Makes Significant Changes to Focus More Heavily on Poor Children
Revised December 8, 2007
On November 30, Congress sent the President a revised version of bipartisan legislation to strengthen children’s health coverage (H.R. 3963). The bill includes substantial changes from the bill the President vetoed in October (H.R. 976) that directly address a number of concerns raised by the earlier bill’s opponents. … -
Martinez Bill Would Weaken Children’s Health Coverage
November 5, 2007
Senator Mel Martinez (R-FL) has introduced legislation (S. 2193) intended to rally opponents of bipartisan children’s health legislation recently vetoed by President Bush, a revised version of which was passed by the House on October 25 and the Senate on November 1. The Martinez bill also has been introduced in the House, as H.R. 3888, … -
Senate Republican Leadership to Seek Reconsideration of SCHIP Plan That Would Fail to Make Progress in Covering Uninsured Children
October 10, 2007
Senator Mitch McConnell, the Senate Minority Leader, plans to ask for reconsideration of the SCHIP legislation that he and Senate Minority Whip Trent Lott offered as an alternative during Senate floor debate on SCHIP on August 1. The McConnell-Lott proposal was defeated at that time on a 61-35 vote.[1] In contrast to the bipartisan … -
CBO Estimates Show SCHIP Agreement Would Provide Health Insurance to 3.8 Million Uninsured Children
Revised September 25, 2007
New Congressional Budget Office estimates show that by 2012, a total of 3.8 million children who otherwise would be uninsured would have health care coverage under the bipartisan agreement reauthorizing the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) developed by House and Senate negotiators. The House is expected to consider … -
House Health Legislation Would Curb Medicare Overpayments to Private Plans, While Aiding Medicare Beneficiaries Overall
Revised August 8, 2007
The House is considering major health legislation this week. The legislation would not only reauthorize the State Children’s Health Insurance Program and extend coverage to five million uninsured children but also would curb excessive payments now being made to private Medicare Advantage plans under the Medicare program and thereby … -
CBO Estimates Show Large Gains in Children's Health Coverage under Senate SCHIP Bill
Revised August 7, 2007
Congressional Budget Office estimates show that 4 million children who otherwise would be uninsured would have health care coverage by 2012 under the bipartisan children’s health legislation that the Senate Finance Committee approved on July 19 by a 17-4 vote. CBO estimates that 2.7 million of these children are uninsured children who … -
CBO Estimates Show House Bill Would Provide Health Insurance to 5 Million Uninsured Children
Revised August 1, 2007
Congressional Budget Office estimates show that by 2012, a total of 5 million children who otherwise would be uninsured would have health care coverage under children’s health legislation that the House is considering this week.[1] The coverage gains under this legislation are about 1 million higher than under the bipartisan bill … -
Lott-Mcconnell SCHIP Proposal Would Fail to Make Progress in Covering Uninsured Children
August 1, 2007
This week, the Senate is considering the “Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2007,” bipartisan children’s health legislation approved on July 19 by the Senate Finance Committee on a 17-4 vote. According to Congressional Budget Office estimates, this legislation would provide health … -
Private Plans Continue to Use Misleading Arguments to Oppose Reforms of Medicare Overpayments
July 31, 2007
This week, the House is scheduled to consider health legislation developed by the chairmen of the House Energy and Commerce and the House Ways and Means Committees to reauthorize and expand the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). This legislation, known as the “CHAMP Act,”[1] would not only reauthorize … -
Barton-Deal SCHIP Bill Would Not Provide States Sufficient Funding Even to Maintain Current Caseloads
July 31, 2007
This week, the House is scheduled to consider health legislation developed by the chairmen of the House Energy and Commerce and the House Ways and Means Committees to reauthorize and expand the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). This legislation, known as the “CHAMP Act,” [1] would provide health … -
Administration’s Proposed Tax Deduction for Health Insurance Seriously Flawed
July 31, 2007
In an attempt to revive its proposal to establish a new standard tax deduction for the purchase of health insurance, the Administration has injected the proposal into the congressional debate over renewing and strengthening the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). The Administration has threatened to veto the … -
Congress to Consider Repeal of Medicare Demonstration Project Designed to Promote Privatization, Rather Than Yield Valid Results
July 23, 2007
Executive Summary The House Energy and Commerce Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee will begin work this week on major health care legislation. Among other proposals, they plan to consider repealing a provision of the 2003 Medicare drug law that requires a large-scale, six-year demonstration project under which private insurance … -
Informing the Debate about Curbing Medicare Advantage Overpayments
July 19, 2007
(Click on the questions below to go directly to the corresponding answer.) Do private plans cost more than it costs the regular Medicare program to cover the same beneficiaries? How do Medicare Advantage overpayments affect Medicare’s finances? How do Medicare Advantage overpayments affect beneficiary premiums? … -
Private Plan Overpayments Weaken Medicare’s Financing and Hasten the Program’s Insolvency
April 20, 2007
Under the Medicare program, beneficiaries may elect coverage through private “Medicare Advantage” plans rather than through the traditional fee-for-service Medicare program. Although private plans were introduced into Medicare to spur competition and reduce program costs, both the … -
Low-Income and Minority Beneficiaries Do Not Rely Disproportionately on Medicare Advantage Plans
Revised April 12, 2007
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), Congress’ expert advisory body on Medicare payments, reported this month that Medicare is losing billions of dollars each year because of excessive payments to private insurance plans through the Medicare Advantage program. (Under that program, Medicare beneficiaries may elect … -
Options Exist for Offsetting the Cost of Extending Health Coverage to More Low-Income Children
Revised April 12, 2007
There is growing consensus that SCHIP reauthorization should make substantial progress toward covering all uninsured low-income children. SCHIP reauthorization legislation thus will require significant increases in federal funding, so states have sufficient federal SCHIP funds both to maintain their existing SCHIP programs and to enroll … -
Clearing Up Confusion on the Costs of Covering Uninsured Children Eligible for Medicaid or SCHIP
March 13, 2007
In recent days, several media accounts have cited some Congressional offices from both parties as saying that a Congressional Budget Office memo issued last month[1] shows that the cost of immediately covering all uninsured children who are eligible for Medicaid or the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) would be $32 billion over five years.[2] Since CBO places the net cost … -
CBO Estimates President's SCHIP Proposal Would Lead to Large Enrollment Declines and Funding Shortfalls
March 13, 2007
On March 9, the Congressional Budget Office issued detailed estimates of the President’s fiscal year 2008 budget proposal to reauthorize the SCHIP program, including estimates of SCHIP enrollment levels and of the federal SCHIP funding shortfall that states will experience over the next five years.[1] The CBO estimates show: Under the … -
SCHIP Reauthorization: President’s Budget Would Provide Less than Half the Funds that States Need to Maintain SCHIP Enrollment
Revised March 13, 2007
The President’s fiscal year 2008 budget proposes to reauthorize the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) for five years but provides less than half of the funding needed for states to maintain their existing SCHIP caseloads, let alone to make progress in covering more uninsured low-income children. Under the President’s … -
CBO Estimates That States Will Face Federal SCHIPShortfalls of $13.4 Billion over Next Five Years
February 26, 2007
On February 23, the Congressional Budget Office issued estimates of the federal funding shortfalls states will face if annual funding for the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) is frozen at the current funding level of $5 billion a year, as is assumed under the budget “baseline.” (A federal funding shortfall occurs … -
Freezing SCHIP Funding In Coming Years Would Reverse Recent Gains In Children's Health Coverage
Revised February 22, 2007
Due in large part to the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), the percentage of low-income children in the United States without health coverage has fallen by one-third since SCHIP was created in 1997, despite the erosion of private health coverage over this period. More than 4 million low-income children, most …
