Health - More Policy Analyses and Research
2008
Urban Institute: The Failure of SCHIP Reauthorization: What Next? (3/13/08) CBPP: Administration's Medicaid Regulations will Weaken Coverage, Harm States, and Strain Health Care System (2/13/08) Families USA: 9 Million Children and Counting: the Administration's Attack on Health Coverage for America's Children (February 2008) Center for Children and Families: SCHIP Provision in the Administration's FY 2009 Budget (2/7/08) CBPP: President's Budget May Provide States With Inadequate Funding to Maintain Current SCHIP Programs (2/7/08) Kaiser Commission on Medicaid & the Uninsured: Medicaid: Overview and Impact of New Regulations (January 2008)
2007
Center for Children and Families: Moving Backward: Status Report on the Impact of the August 17 SCHIP Directive to Impose New Limits on States Ability to Cover Uninsured Children (December 2007) Foundation for Child Development: All Our Children? The Health and Education of Children of Immigrants (October 2007) Children’s Sentinel Nutrition Assessment Program: Fuel for the Future (10/22/07) CBPP: New SCHIP Legislation Makes Significant Changes from Vetoed Bill to Focus more heavily on Poor Children: Bill continues to Reach Nearly 4 Million Uninsured Children (10/25/07) Center for Children and Families: Coverage of the Uninsured Children in Moderate-Income Families Under SCHIP (October 2007) Center for Children & Families: Summary of the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2007 (9/28/07) Families USA: Summary of the Senate, House and Compromise CHIP Reauthorization Bills (September 2007) CBPP: CBO Estimates Show SCHIP Agreement Would Provide Health Insurance to 3.8 Million Uninsured Children (9/25/07) Families USA: Kids Waiting for Coverage: How Many Are in Your State? (September 2007) Center for Children and Families: Moving Backward: New Federally Imposed Limits on States' Ability to Cover Children (8/30/07) CBPP: House Health Legislation Would Curb Medicare Overpayments to Private Plans, While Aiding Medicare Beneficiaries Overall (8/8/07) First Focus: A Brief Analysis of the Bush Administration's Tax Proposals in the Context of the SCHIP Reauthorization (8/1/07) CBPP: New Charges About How House Children's Health Bill Affects Undocumented Immigrants are False (8/1/07) NWLC: State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP): Vital Health Coverage for Families (February 2007) CBPP: Fourteen States Face SCHIP Shortfalls this Year Totaling Over $700 Million (2/22/07) CBPP: SCHIP Reauthorization: President's Budget Would Provide Less than Half the Funds that States Need to Maintain SCHIP Enrollment (2/22/07) CBPP: Freezing SCHIP Funding in Coming Years Would Reverse Recent Gains in Children's Health Coverage (2/22/07) Families USA: Tax Credits Versus Tax Deductions for Health Coverage: Why the Bush Tax Deduction is Unhelpful and Regressive (January 2007) Urban Institute: The President's Health Insurance Proposal - A First Look (01/23/07)
2006
The Kaiser Commission on Medicaid & the Uninsured: SCHIP Program Enrollment - June 2005 Update (December 2006) Center for Children and Families - Too Close to Turn Back: Covering America's Children (12/12/06) Families USA: Coverage through the "Donut Hole" Grows Scarcer in 2007 (11/1/2006) NCLR: Redefining HIV/AIDS for Latinos: A Promising New Paradigm for Addressing HIV/AIDS in the Hispanic Community (10/10/06) Joint Economic Committee Democrats: Administration's Health Insurance Tax Credit Fails to Provide Solution for Uninsured (4/17/06) Families USA: Summary of S. 1955: The Health Insurance Marketplace Modernization Act (3/23/06) Families USA: The Enzi Bill: Bad Medicine for America (3/15/06) Families USA: Analysis of Key Health Provisions In President's FY 2007 Budget (2/22/06) CBPP: President Greatly Reduced His Health Proposals for Low-Income Families While Expanding Health Benefits for the More Affluent (2/8/06) CBPP: President's Health Care Tax Cuts Likely to Weaken Existing Insurance and Primarily Help Well-Off (1/31/06) CHN: State Fact Sheets - How Budget Cuts Will Affect Your State (1/13/06) CBPP: Assessing the Effects of Budget Conference Agreement on Low Income Families (revised 1/9/06)
2005
CBPP: Budget Conference Agreement Contains Substainal Cuts Aimed at Low-Income Families (12/18/05) Center for American Progress: House Medicaid Budget Proposal Harms Millions (11/29/05) CHN: Labor-HHS-Education Bill Slashes Services for Low-Income People (11/17/05) G'town Health Policy Inst.: House Budget Bill Eliminates Medicaid Standards for 6 Million Children (11/10/05) CBPP: Administration Ignores MEDPAC Findings in Threatening to Veto Senate Medicare Provision (11/4/05) CBPP: Latest Enrollment Data Still Fail to Dispel Concerns About Health Savings Accounts (10/26/05) CBPP: House Energy and Commerce Committee Proposal Imposes New Costs on Low-Income Medicaid Recipients (10/25/05) Georgetown Center for Children and Families: Key Issues in the House Energy and Commerce Committee Medicaid Proposal (10/25/05) Georgetown Center for Children and Families: Differences that Make a Difference: Comparing Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program Federal Benefit Standards (10/25/05) EPI: Prospects Worsen for Employee's Health Care (10/21/05) CBPP: Administration's Medicaid Waiver Policy Fails to Help All Katrina Survivors (9/29/05) Families USA: Getting the Best Price: Lessons from the Medicare Discount Card (9/27/05) CBPP: Medicaid Eligibility Rules Prevent Katrina Survivors in Lousiana From Accessing Medicaid (9/26/05) CHN: Number of Poor and Uninsured Rise Again in 2004 (8/30/05) CBPP: Number of Uninsured Continued to Rise in 2004 (8/30/05) APHA: Medicaid, Prevention, and Public Health - Invest Today for a Healthier Tomorrow (8/30/05) AHRQ: More Than One in Three Hispanics Are Uninsured (8/10/05) Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Going Without - America's Uninsured Children (8/2/05) Organizations Respond to Latest Data Showing Growth in Poverty, Uninsurance in 2004 (August 2005) Annie E Casey: 2005 KIDS COUNT Report Shows Increase in Child Poverty (7/27/05) includes data about low-birthweight, infant mortality and other health issues CBPP: Medicaid: Improving Health, Saving Lives (7/19/05) CBPP: What Does the Safety Net Accomplish? (7/19/05) Families USA: New Medicare Law Puts Low-Income People At Risk (7/6/05) Centers for Disease Control: Health Insurance Coverage: Estimates from National Survey 2004 (June 2005) CBPP: Statement on National Governor's Association Medicaid Recommendations (6/15/05) Families USA: Paying a Premium - The Added Cost of Care for the Uninsured (6/8/05) National Governors' Association: Policy Position on Medicaid Reform (adopted 6/1/05) CBPP: Out of Pocket Expenses for Medicaid Recipients are Large and Growing (5/31/05) Urban Institute: SCHIP Responds to Third Year of Budget Pressure (5/19/05) CHN: What is in the FY 2006 Budget Resolution? (5/6/05) National Partnership: Expecting Better - State-by-State Analysis of Family Leave Programs (5/5/05) Family Leave Coalition: Letter to Department of Labor on Family Leave (5/5/05) IWPR: Valuing Good Health (A Cost Benefit Analysis of the Healthy Families Act (4/27/05) CHN: Dangerous Choices: The President's Fiscal Year 2006 Budget (3/8/05) Urban: The Health and Well Being of Children of Immigrants (2/8/05)
2004
Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law: Mental Health Hits and Misses in 108th Congress (12/16/04) Families USA: Capping Medicaid Funding: How Block Grants Would Hurt States (12/10/04) CWLA: Funding for Selected Children's Programs (12/2/04) FamiliesUSA: Tennessee Governor Threatens to End Health Coverage for 430,000 People (11/11/04) CHN: Ballot Initiatives in the 2004 General Election (11/5/04) CHN: Block Grant Proposals Threaten Services for Families and Communities (updated 10/22/04) Families USA: $1.1 Billion in CHIP Funds to Be Returned to Treasury (9/23/04) CBPP: Congress Can Preserve Expiring CHIP Funds and Help Avert CHIP Cutbacks (9/24/04) Affordable Health Care for All Grassroots Campaign (Fall 2004) CBPP: Congress Can Preserve Expiring CHIP Funds and Avert Cuts (8/31/04) CBPP: Number of Americans Without Health Insurance Highest Ever (8/26/04) CSNAP: Safety Net Has Powerful Impact on Babies' Health (8/5/04) JEC: Rising Health Care Costs Undermine Social Security COLA Adjustment (July 2004) FamiliesUSA: One in Three: Americans Without Health Insurance (6/16/04) CDF: Letter to Congress on Family Opportunity Act (6/14/04) IWPR: Expanded Sick Leave Would Benefit Business, Employers, Families (6/15/04)
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