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House Health Bill Would Expand, Strengthen Coverage for Children and Families
November 6, 2009
The health reform bill that House Democratic leaders introduced on October 29 (H.R. 3962) would provide affordable, comprehensive health insurance coverage to 36 million Americans who otherwise would be uninsured, according to the Congressional Budget Office. [1] This is 7 million more otherwise-uninsured people than CBO estimates would gain coverage under … -
Online Information About Key Low-Income Benefit Programs
Revised April 27, 2009
Virtually all states have made information regarding the five main state-administered low-income benefit programs — food stamps, Medicaid, SCHIP, TANF and child care — available to the public via the internet. There is significant variation between what online information is provided … -
New Children's Health Law Reduces the Harmful Impact of Documentation Requirement
April 23, 2009
The Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 (CHIPRA) enacted in February contains several provisions to reduce the harmful impact of Medicaid’s citizenship documentation requirement, which has caused many eligible citizen children to lose or be denied coverage … -
Mississippi’s “Face-To-Face” Rule Blocks Coverage of Eligible People, Not Fraud
March 25, 2009
Since 2005, Mississippi has required low-income adults, including parents trying to secure health coverage for their children, to travel to a state office for a face-to-face meeting in order to receive or renew benefits in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program. Mississippi is the only state requiring face-to-face … -
Medicaid and CHIP Eligibility Is Protected For Jobless Families That Receive Boost in Unemployment Benefits
March 20, 2009
An estimated 17.9 million jobless workers who become unemployed in 2009 will see their unemployment benefits increase by $25 per week under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).[1] While unemployment benefits typically are included as income when determining eligibility for Medicaid and CHIP, ARRA excludes this additional $25 per week from the … -
Measure in House Recovery Package — But Not Senate Package — Would Help Unemployed Parents Receive Health Coverage
February 9, 2009
The economic recovery package that the House passed on January 28 would establish a temporary option for states to provide Medicaid coverage to certain workers (and their families) who have become unemployed during this recession. This provision, which is not in the Senate package, would help address a problem many parents face … -
Challenges of Providing Health Coverage for Children and Parents in a Recession
January 27, 2009
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President's Budget May Provide States With Inadequate Funding To Maintain Current SCHIP Programs
February 7, 2008
December 2007, Congress extended the expiring State Children’s Health Insurance Program through March 2009. As part of his fiscal year 2009 budget, the President proposes to reauthorize SCHIP through the end of fiscal year 2013. The budget proposal would provide an additional $19.7 billion to states for their SCHIP … -
The Dubious Priorities of the President's FY 2009 Budget
Revised February 7, 2008
The President’s budget would provide more tax cuts heavily skewed to the most well-off while cutting vital services for low- and moderate-income Americans, generating large deficits, and increasing the strain on states already confronting budget problems as a result of the economic downturn. The budget … -
Policy Points: Many Missed Opportunities for Congress and the President in 2007
Revised December 21, 2007
Over recent months, federal policymakers considered measures to expand children’s health coverage, strengthen Medicare, make new investments in areas like education and medical research, and extend tax relief — while maintaining fiscal discipline. Congress and the President … -
Statement by Robert Greenstein, Executive Director, in Response to President Bush’s Veto of The Children’s Health Insurance Bill
December 12, 2007
With today’s veto, the President again struck down legislation that would do precisely what he promised in his 2004 re-election campaign — “lead an aggressive effort to enroll millions of poor children who are eligible but not signed up for government health insurance programs.… -
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. … -
New Children’s Health Legislation Would Not Allow Any Undocumented Immigrants to Enroll in SCHIP or Medicaid
December 4, 2007
President Bush has said he will veto the second bipartisan compromise bill passed by Congress (H.R. 3963) to reauthorize the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). The Administration claims, in part, that the bill “continues to allow SCHIP to cover ineligible individuals,” namely undocumented immigrants.[1] Some … -
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, … -
Statement by Robert Greenstein, Executive Director, on New SCHIP Legislation
October 25, 2007
Congressional negotiators have made significant changes in the SCHIP legislation President Bush vetoed in order to address key concerns raised by critics. Rather than welcome these changes, the Administration appears to be escalating its distortions of what the new bill … -
Poor Children First — or Last?
October 17, 2007
The Bush administration has recently argued that the President favors providing health insurance to “poor children first” and vetoed bipartisan children’s health legislation because it violates this principle. On “This Week” on October 7, Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt stated: “The … -
Expanding Children’s Health Insurance and Raising Federal Tobacco Taxes Helps Low-Income Families
October 16, 2007
This report was issued jointly with: In explaining President’s Bush’s veto of bipartisan legislation to strengthen the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and pay for it by raising federal tobacco tax rates, White House Press Secretary Dana Perino claimed that the tobacco increase would … -
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 … -
“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 … -
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 … -
Charge That Bipartisan SCHIP Compromise Bill Aids Undocumented Immigrants Is False
September 25, 2007
Some opponents of the bipartisan SCHIP compromise legislation are charging that the bill opens Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) to illegal immigrants. This charge is false. The Provision at Issue The charge revolves around a provision of the new legislation that is designed to remedy serious … -
Statement by Robert Greenstein, Executive Director, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, on New Congressional SCHIP Agreement
September 21, 2007
Today’s agreement would extend health coverage to several million low-income uninsured children, a major accomplishment. Contrary to White House rhetoric, the bulk of the children who would gain coverage are poor and near-poor children who are uninsured, not … -
Administration Moves to Eviscerate Efforts to Enroll Uninsured Low-Income Children in Health Coverage through the Schools
September 17, 2007
While deep disagreements emerged between Congress and the Bush Administration last year in the debate over reauthorizing the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), all sides agreed that states should do all they can to enroll low-income children who are currently eligible for Medicaid and SCHIP. And while the Administration issued … -
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 … -
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 … -
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 … -
House SCHIP Legislation Would Repeal Dubious “45-Percent Threshold” Provision
July 30, 2007
Legislation to extend the State Children’s Health Insurance Program and make various changes in Medicare, which the House is scheduled to consider this week, would repeal a so-called “45-Percent Threshold” provision affecting Medicare that was slipped into the 2003 Medicare prescription drug bill. Some lawmakers argue … -
The Administration’s Dubious Claims about the Emerging Children’s Health Insurance Legislation
Revised July 20, 2007
Congress is considering legislation to reauthorize the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), a successful federal health program enjoying bipartisan support that, together with Medicaid, has reduced the proportion and the number of low-income children who are insured by about one third since 1997.… -
The False "Public Versus Private" Choice for Children’s Health Coverage
June 21, 2007
As Congress considers the reauthorization of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), groups like the Heritage Foundation are making a strong push to change the way coverage is provided to eligible low-income children.[1] They claim Congress must choose between “government-run health care” and private … -
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 … -
Statement by Robert Greenstein on CBO Report on SCHIP
May 10, 2007
The Congressional Budget Office today released a report analyzing the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), which must be reauthorized by Congress this year. Congress is now considering how to strengthen and improve the SCHIP and Medicaid programs and make further significant progress towards reducing the number of uninsured low-income children in the United States.… -
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 … -
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 … -
Fact Sheet: Congress Has a Number of Options to Pay for Extending Health Coverage to More Low-Income Children
March 14, 2007
There is growing consensus that SCHIP reauthorization should make substantial progress toward covering all uninsured low-income children. The cost, however, will be substantial. Immediately enrolling the roughly 6 million children who are eligible for publicly funded coverage but … -
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 … -
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 … -
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 … -
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 … -
Fourteen States Face SCHIP Shortfalls This Year Totaling Over $700 Million
December 11, 2006
New estimates, based on the latest available data, show that 14 states face federal funding shortfalls this year in the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. These states lack sufficient federal funding to maintain current enrollment levels through the end of fiscal year 2007. The shortfalls in these states total more than … -
Coverage of Parents Helps Children, Too
October 20, 2006
The nation has made an important commitment to reducing the number of uninsured children. Over the past decade, the creation of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and related changes made by states in their Medicaid programs have boosted children’s enrollment and led to a marked reduction in the … -
SCHIP Financing Update
June 5, 2006
The State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), jointly financed by states and the federal government, provides comprehensive health insurance coverage to more than four million low-income children, most of whom would otherwise be uninsured.[1] In a prior analysis, we estimated that under current law, a number of states … -
Administration's Fiscal Year 2007 Budget Is Likely Still To Leave Schip Coverage For Low-Income Children In Jeopardy
Revised March 14, 2006
The State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), jointly financed by states and the federal government, provides comprehensive health insurance coverage to more than 4 million low-income children who would otherwise be uninsured.[1] In fiscal year 2007, under current law, 18 states will have insufficient federal funding … -
In a Time of Growing Need: State Choices Influence Health Coverage Access for Children and Families -- A 50 State Update on Eligibility Rules, Enrollment and Renewal Procedures, and Cost-Sharing Practices in Medicaid and SCHIP for Children and Families
October 18, 2005
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Medicaid and SCHIP Protected Insurance Coverage for Millions of Low-Income Americans
January 31, 2005
Data from the U.S. Census Bureau indicate that the ranks of uninsured Americans have grown substantially since 2000. It is less commonly known, however, that the number of those uninsured would have been millions higher had it not been for enrollment growth in Medicaid and its sister program, the State Children’s Health … -
State Policies to Assist Working-Poor Families
December 10, 2004
Introduction For a large and growing number of Americans, having a job is not enough to lift them out of poverty. This report presents a menu of practical policy options that states can adopt to help working-poor families meet their basic needs and improve their lives. The number of people in working-poor families has grown significantly in the last two decades. In 2003, 13.1 … -
Fact Sheet: Administration Plan for Expiring SCHIP Funds Would Weaken Program
October 6, 2004
A new Center report, Assessing the Administration’s Claims That Extending $1.1 Billion in Expiring SCHIP Funds Is Unnecessary to Sustain Existing Children’s Enrollment , explains why Administration opposition to bipartisan legislation supported by the … -
Assessing the Administration's Claims that Extending $1.1 Billion in ExpiringAssessing the Administration's Claims that Extending $1.1 Billion in Expiring SCHIP Funds is Not Necessary to Sustain Existing Children's Enrollment
September 30, 2004
Recent media reports indicate that the Bush Administration opposes bipartisan legislation to extend nearly $1.1 billion in unspent SCHIP funds that are slated to expire and revert to the Treasury after September 30. [1] Bipartisan legislation that the National Governors Association has endorsed[2] (S. 2759 in the Senate and H.R. 4936 …
