America's Children:

Health Insurance and Access to Care

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Size: 216 pages, 8.5 x 11

Publication Year:1998

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Authors:
Margaret Edmunds and Molly Joel Coye, Editors; Committee on Children, Health Insurance, and Access to Care, Institute of Medicine and National Research Council
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America's Children is a comprehensive, easy-to-read analysis of the relationship between health insurance and access to care. The book addresses three broad questions: How is children's health care currently financed? Does insurance equal access to care? How should the nation ...
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Front Matter	i-xviii
Summary	1-8	(skim)
1 Introduction and Overview	9-22	(skim)
2 Health Insurance and Children in America	23-43	(skim)
3 Health Insurance and Access to Care	44-64	(skim)
4 Safety Net Providers	65-80	(skim)
5 Medicaid	81-101	(skim)
6 State and Private Insurance Initiatives	102-119	(skim)
7 Children's Health Care Needs	120-140	(skim)
Appendix A Market-Based Approaches to Insurance Reform	141-154	(skim)
Appendix B Information for Accountability	155-169	(skim)
Appendix C Public Workshop Agenda and Participants	170-176	(skim)
Appendix D Members of Liaison Panel	177-184	(skim)
Appendix E Committee and Staff Biographies	185-188	(skim)
Index	189-198	(skim)

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America's Children is a comprehensive, easy-to-read analysis of the relationship between health insurance and access to care. The book addresses three broad questions: How is children's health care currently financed? Does insurance equal access to care? How should the nation address the health needs of this vulnerable population?
America's Children explores the changing role of Medicaid under managed care; state-initiated and private sector children's insurance programs; specific effects of insurance status on the care children receive; and the impact of chronic medical conditions and special health care needs. It also examines the status of "safety net" health providers, including community health centers, children's hospitals, school-based health centers, and others and reviews the changing patterns of coverage and tax policy options to increase coverage of private-sector, employer-based health insurance.
In response to growing public concerns about uninsured children, last year Congress voted to provide $24 billion over five years for new state insurance initiatives. This volume will serve as a primer for concerned federal policymakers and regulators, state agency officials, health plan decisionmakers, health care providers, children's health advocates, and researchers.

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