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Posted March 21st, 2012 by Claire Moshenberg
Happy second birthday, health care reform! This week is the two year anniversary of the passage of the Affordable Care Act. Over the past two years, millions of families have been helped by health care reform, and when new provisions kick in 2014, millions more will have access to crucial health care coverage for themselves and their [...]
Posted November 18th, 2011 by Judy Darnell
Co-authored with Stephanie Hodson of United Ways of CA One of United Ways of California’s goals is to improve the health of children and adults. We know that a lack of health care coverage often means that primary care is an unattainable luxury. Yet primary care is so important in preventing or treating illness before [...]
Posted November 18th, 2011 by Kelli King-Jackson
“Now we see everything that’s going wrong With the world and those who lead it We just feel like we don’t have the means To rise above and beat it So we keep waiting Waiting on the world to change.” John Mayer – Waiting on the World to Change I kind of love John [...]
Posted November 18th, 2011 by Marge Dunne
Beacon Therapeutic is a social service agency that has a wide array of services to benefit children, teens, and families in the Chicagoland area. Beacon’s newest program, CHIPRA(Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Grant), is an outreach program funded through a federal grant targeted at improving healthcare across America by assisting families, children and independent teens [...]
Posted November 18th, 2011 by Brian Burrell
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) marked a historic expansion of access to health care for many people, and the federal and state exchanges will be a large part of that reform. Ideally, low- and middle-income consumers will buy insurance with subsidies through online health benefit exchanges, where they can compare the price, quality, and benefits [...]
Posted November 18th, 2011 by Say Ahhh!
By Sue Berkowitz While South Carolina is often a state cited for being first on list for outcomes that are bad and last in those that are good, we have some surprisingly positive news. The South Carolina Medicaid director Tony Keck, in his 2012-13 budget request to Gov. Haley, asked for an additional $35 million [...]
Posted November 18th, 2011 by Say Ahhh!
by Tricia Brooks A recent survey by Lake Research Partners refreshes our knowledge of barriers to enrollment in Medicaid and CHIP. Commissioned by CMS for its Connecting Kids to Coverage initiative, the survey interviewed nearly 2,000 parents with income at or below 250% of the poverty level; about one-third each with uninsured children, children enrolled [...]
Posted November 18th, 2011 by Say Ahhh!
By Tricia Brooks Consistently over the years, studies have shown a high level of satisfaction by parents whose children are covered by Medicaid or CHIP. So it’s no surprise that a recent survey conducted by Lake Research Partners for CMS confirms this finding once again. What is somewhat surprising is that parents with kids enrolled [...]
Posted November 18th, 2011 by HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius
No child or young person should have to skip a doctor’s appointment or go without the medicine they need because their family can’t afford it. That shouldn’t happen in America, and that’s why the Obama Administration made children’s health coverage a priority from the start. When President Obama took office, there were 8 million uninsured [...]
Posted November 18th, 2011 by The Childrens Partnership
Recent data shows that people of color and low-income populations are adopting mobile technology at a rapid pace and are increasingly using mobile tools to access the Internet. These tools enable new ways of interacting with the government and enrolling in public services. Instead of standing in line at the DMV, renewing a driver’s license [...]
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