Tuesday, July 29, 2003

Preserving Recent Progress for Health Coverage of Children and Parents: New Tensions Emerge
This page indexes documents from a policy briefing convened by the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, at which they released ".... a new survey of the states showing that as states struggle with their worst fiscal crisis since World War II, health coverage for low-income families may be at risk. The report finds that state actions in the past several years to simplify enrollment procedures and expand eligibility for coverage may have plateaued with some actions a harbinger of future problems." See the news release, the executive summary, the full report (Preserving Recent Progress for Health Coverage of Children and Parents: New Tensions Emerge), The Health Insurance Status of Low-Income Children and Their Parents: Recent Trends in Coverage and State-Level Data, and earlier, related documents (all in Adobe Acrobat format).