Medicaid
Posted April 11th, 2012 by Claire Moshenberg and Ashley Wheeland
A few weeks ago, the Colorado Consumer Health Initiative hosted an informative Facebook chat with MomsRising about the Affordable Care Act. Here are a few commonly asked questions on pregnancy, kids, and health reform, with expert answers and resources from Ashley Wheeland from the Colorado Consumer Health Initiative. What if I get pregnant then lose my [...]
Posted March 23rd, 2012 by Say Ahhh!
By Joan Alker, Georgetown University Center for Children and Families One of the least often discussed provisions of the Affordable Care Act continues to be one of the most popular according to the latest Kaiser Health News tracking poll. Seventy percent of those responding to the poll thought favorably about the ACA provision to expand [...]
Posted March 22nd, 2012 by Ann O'Leary
Next week, a very adult conversation begins at the U.S. Supreme Court, but much of it will have an enormous impact on children. For three days, lawyers will argue over the constitutionality of two major provisions in the Affordable Care Act—the so-called “individual mandate,” requiring most Americans to have health insurance, and the Medicaid expansion, [...]
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 March 15th, 2012 by Gail Schimmelpfennig
At a time when it is popular to lash out at “Obamacare”, I want to stand up for the expansion of Medicaid that the Affordable Care Act will bring about in 2014. Medicaid not only offers outstanding healthcare coverage to people who need it most, but it saves families money and lives. My 30-year-old [...]
Posted March 15th, 2012 by Gene Lewit
Living in Silicon Valley, I am used to reading about new tech wonders every day. In fact, today, we use the internet to do many things we used to do in person, by snailmail or on the telephone. This trend is encouraged by new technology, but has gained popularity because it is often less expensive [...]
Posted March 1st, 2012 by Gene Lewit
Late last year, while official Washington and its pundits were busy deconstructing the failure of the “Super Committee” and the rest of us were planning our holiday celebrations, the National Center for Health Statistics quietly released its 2011 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) data. Among other things, the data contained good news about the nation’s [...]
Posted February 28th, 2012 by Kimberly Bassett
The Wireless Foundation joined the text4baby initiative over two years ago because of the clear value we see in using mobile technology to improve the health of families in this country. Text4baby is the first of its kind – a free-to-end-user mobile health education service that provides moms with timely, relevant information in the palm [...]
Posted February 28th, 2012 by Cindy Mann
They say that timing is everything. If that’s true, doesn’t it make sense to tell someone about how to sign up for health insurance when she needs it the most? And, when we’re enrolling a family in a health insurance program, shouldn’t we help them understand how to use those benefits to ensure their child [...]
Posted February 28th, 2012 by Amy Swanson
Today, America’s children face the prospect of growing up less healthy, having more debilitating and costly chronic health conditions as adults and living shorter lives than their parents. While current health care costs for children are small in relation of those for adults, the future costs for treating their health threatens the financial viability of [...]
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