Wednesday, April 07, 2004

SCHIP Changes in a Difficult Budget Climate: A Three-State Site Visit Report
A report (in Adobe Acrobat format) from the National Academy for State Heath Policy - " The National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) conducted site visits to three states— Texas, Utah and Virginia—between December 2003 and February 2004 to gather information about programmatic changes to SCHIP in the wake of recent budget debates. The site visits were two days long and included meetings with SCHIP staff, consumer advocates, health plan representatives, and lawmakers. The purpose of the site visits was to gain a deeper understanding of issues and challenges confronting states in the current fiscal environment."  
  

Medicaid: A Lower-Cost Approach to Serving a High-Cost Population
A policy brief from the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Unisured that "brings new analysis to the debate concerning the efficiency of Medicaid versus private health insurance as a mechanism for covering low-income children and adults."