A few weeks ago, I went to pick up my three kids from their after-school science class only to find that one of my 8-year-old twins, Leo, had never shown up. I spent 20 panicked minutes frantically searching for him, reviewing in my head what I knew about child abduction rates (they are really, really [...]
As communities across the nation celebrate the one-year anniversary of the Affordable Care Act, CCF marked the event in its traditional style – by issuing an issue brief. It has the facts about how the Affordable Care Act will affect children, but also stories from families whose children have personally been touched by the new law [...]
I ‘m feeling a bit like Bill Murray in the movie classic “Groundhog Day” as I brace myself for another round of debate on health reform. (It’s like déjà vu all over again!) As the real Groundhog Day approaches, Congress will likely be in the midst of discussing health reform as they were the last [...]
I had a chance to go to a fantastic event on September 3rd sponsored by Secretary Sebelius on the Connecting Kids to Coverage Challenge, which aims to reach the nation’s 4.7 million uninsured children who already are eligible for Medicaid or CHIP. She made a compelling pitch that nothing is more important to our future than the [...]
By Jocelyn Guyer, Georgetown University Center for Children and Families (http://theccfblog.org/) A record number of people are now living in poverty, including one in five children, according to U.S. Census figures (http://ccf.georgetown.edu/index) released last week. More than 50 million people reported no health insurance coverage in 2009, which translates into an uninsured rate of 16.7 [...]
In the past year, while private insurance has become less available and more expensive and families faced the most difficult economic times since the Great Depression, the renewed CHIP program and Medicaid have offered a vital lifeline to America’s children. Thanks to the strong resolve of national and state leaders, many of our children have been sheltered from this economic storm.
One of the toughest things about being a mom is that you can’t always make things right in your kids’ lives, nor in the world. The first time I learned this lesson was when my water broke well before my twin boys were supposed to be born. We couldn’t stop them from coming, and they [...]
So far, the news about kids in health reform has been dominated by a fat baby and an underweight toddler. Earlier this month, we learned about a healthy 4-month old boy, Alex Colorado, who was denied coverage by Rocky Mountain Health Plan for being “overweight.” A week later, we heard about a two-year old Colorado [...]
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