To watch the video webcast or a recording, go to
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/urban-institute-events.
Panelists:
• Kelly Devers, senior fellow, Health Policy Center, Urban Institute
• Stan Dorn, senior fellow, Health Policy Center, Urban Institute
• John Holahan, director, Health Policy Center, Urban Institute (moderator)
• Genevieve Kenney, senior fellow, Health Policy Center, Urban Institute
• Stacey McMorrow, research associate, Health Policy Center, Urban Institute
From multiple directions, senior researchers from the Urban Institute’s Health Policy Center diagnose the state of children’s health coverage and preview what lies ahead for the youngest generation:
• How well did Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program meet children’s coverage needs during the recent recession?
• What might happen to children’s coverage under the Affordable Care Act? Under a Medicaid block grant or legislation allowing states to reduce Medicaid and CHIP eligibility?
• Why do coverage programs for kids fall short of their enrollment goals? How can federal and state policymakers boost signup and retention?
• Despite new opportunities under ACA to obtain insurance, many families will face daunting hurdles because of complex household circumstances -- such as variation within families over who is eligible for public programs -- and other factors. Are there ways to lower these barriers?
• Do quality health care services begin at home -- a medical home or accountable care organization, that is?
Join us for an insightful workup on children’s health coverage.
Handouts:
- Bios
- Dorn: Low-Income Children and Parents Without Coverage
- McMorrow: Children Facing Complex Coverage Situations
Other resources:
- Progress Enrolling Children in Medicaid/CHIP: Who is Left and What are the Prospects for Covering More Children?
- How Will the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 Affect Children?
- The Effects of Medicaid and CHIP Policy Changes on Receipt of Preventive Care among Children
Health Services Research, vol. 26, no. 1, 2011, pp. 298-318 - Improving the Lives of Young Children: Increasing Referrals and Follow-Up Treatment in Medicaid and CHIP
- Improving the Lives of Young Children: The Role of Developmental Screenings in Medicaid and CHIP
- Improving the Lives of Young Children: Meeting Parents’ Health and Mental Health Needs through Medicaid and CHIP So Children Can Thrive
- Addressing Coverage Challenges for Children Under the Affordable Care Act
- Home Visiting and Maternal Depression: Seizing the Opportunities to Help Mothers and Young Children
- Infants of Depressed Mothers Living in Poverty: Opportunities to Identify and Serve
- Implementing National Health Reform: A Five-Part Strategy for Reaching the Eligible Uninsured
- The Secrets of Massachusetts' Success: Why 97 Percent of State Residents Have Health Coverage
- Holding Steady, Looking Ahead: Annual Findings of a 50-State Survey of Eligibility Rules, Enrollment and Renewal Procedures, and Cost Sharing Practices in Medicaid and CHIP, 2010-2011
- Improving Coverage And Access For Immigrant Latino Children: The Los Angeles Healthy Kids Program
Health Affairs, 27, no. 2 (2008): 550-559 - Report to Congress: HHS Secretary’s Efforts to Improve Children’s Health Care Quality in Medicaid and CHIP
- Mathematica to Evaluate Demonstration Program to Improve Quality of Care in CHIP, Medicaid
At the Urban Institute
2100 M Street N.W., 5th Floor, Washington, D.C.
Lunch will be provided at 11:45 a.m. The forum begins promptly at noon.
A video recording will be archived after the event at
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/urban-institute-events.
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