Wednesday, December 01, 2004

Covering New Americans - A Review of Federal and State Policies Related to Immigrant Eligibility and Access to Publicly Funded Health Insurance
From the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, in Adobe Acrobat format, "This brief provides an overview of health coverage challenges facing immigrants, the federal rules regarding immigrants’ eligibility for Medicaid and SCHIP, and state efforts to provide replacement coverage for immigrants who are ineligible for Medicaid and SCHIP."  
  

Medicaid Coverage for Poor Adults - A Potential Building Block for Bipartisan Health Reform
Paper by Stan Dorn of the Economic and Social Research Institute - "This paper explores whether giving state Medicaid programs increased flexibility to cover uninsured, poor adults could be one element of a broader, bipartisan expansion in health coverage. Among households with incomes below the Federal Poverty Level (FPL), million working-age adults now lack coverage, comprising 27 percent of the uninsured."