Expanding Children’s Health Insurance and Raising Federal Tobacco Taxes Helps Low-Income Families
End Notes
[1] Transcript of White House press briefing, October 2, 2007.
[2] CDC, National Center for Health Statistics, Summary: Health Statistics for U.S. Adults, 2006, Table 24, Provisional Report No. 10(235), Aug. 2007
[3] CDC, “Response to Increases in Cigarette Prices by Race/Ethnicity, Income and Age Groups — United States, 1976-1993,” Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 47(29):605-609, Jul. 31, 1998. M. Farrelly et al., “Responses to Cigarette Prices by Socioeconomic Characteristics,” Southern Economic Journal, 68(1): 156-65, 2001. Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, “Federal Tobacco Tax Increases Will Benefit Lower-Income Households,” revised Sept. 24, 2007, http://tobaccofreekids.org/research/factsheets/pdf/0022.pdf.
[4] The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids generated the estimates of current smokers, by income group, who would stop due to higher effective prices, based on income and price responsiveness research from CDC and Farrelly (see note 3), CDC data on smoking prevalence by income level (note 1), and available data on current cigarette prices.
[5] Congressional Budget Office, “CBO’s Estimate of Changes in SCHIP and Medicaid Enrollment of Children Under the House Amendments to the Senate Amendments to H.R. 976, the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2007,” September 24, 2007. See also Edwin Park, “CBO Estimates Show SCHIP Agreement Would Provide Health Insurance to 3.8 Million Uninsured Children,” Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, revised September 25, 2007.
[6] G. Kenney et al., “SCHIP Reauthorization: How Will Low-income Children Benefit Under the House and Senate Bills?” Urban Institute, as updated on October 4 at http://www.urban.org/publications/411545.html.
[7] Press release by the minority side of the Senate Finance Committee, “Republican Senators Support Children’s Health Insurance Program,” Sept. 27, 2007.