The Restemayers’ story is a powerful reminder of why we all need to be rolling up our sleeves and making sure that health care reform works as intended for families and children.
Fortunately, this year’s crop of grads (and their parents) will have one less thing to worry about as they transition to work or further education: health insurance.
if Congress and the Administration are unable to find a way to follow-through on health reform this time around, only time will tell how this missed opportunity would impact all of us, our children and our grandchildren. Let’s hope they are able to rise to the challenge so future generations won’t look back on this moment in history and think to themselves how much better life would be “if only …”
As we approach the one-year anniversary of President Obama signing the Children’s Health Insurance Program reauthorization, think of all those babies born in the last year who were given a better chance at living a healthy life due to this important legislation. I applaud Governor Culver and other state lawmakers who had the courage and leadership to use CHIP and Medicaid funding to increase their investments in families struggling to weather the current economic storm.
Families still reeling from the recession, feeling pessimistic about the future, and many of them struggling to cut back spending in order to cover health expenses – that is the portrait painted by the recent survey CCF conducted with Lake Research Partners. This is worrisome news for the fragile economic recovery with so many families [...]
By Jocelyn Guyer Co-Executive Director Center for Children and Families at Georgetown University’s Health Policy Institute In 2008, the number of uninsured children in the United States hit the lowest level in two decades. If Congress weren’t in the middle of a fierce debate on health reform, there would be time for everyone to celebrate [...]
Julia Kaye is a Health Policy Associate at the National Women’s Law Center and regular contributor at womenstake.org. The following was a guest post she wrote for Say Ahhh! There is a common misconception that all low-income people–or, at least, all poor parents–are eligible for Medicaid. It may derive from a mistaken comparison with Medicare; [...]
Jocelyn Guyer is the Co-Director of the Center for Children and Families at Georgetown University’s Health Policy Institute and blogs regularly at Say Ahhh! A Children’s Health Policy Blog. It is becoming increasingly clear that Congress may well dismantle the popular Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) as part of broader health reform. Children and their [...]
As policymakers consider health reform, they will need to consider the needs of families raising children with special health care needs. These families are not only hit hard in the pocketbook, they face overwhelming bureaucratic obstacles to coverage. We asked Meg Comeau to address this issue from a policy perspective and from her personal experience [...]
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