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America's Children

Health Insurance and Access to Care

Margaret Edmunds and Molly Joel Coye, Editors

Committee on Children, Health Insurance, and Access to Care

Division of Health Care Services, Institute of Medicine,

and

Board on Children, Youth, and Families, National Research Council and Institute of Medicine

NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS
Washington, DC
1998

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1. Child health services—United States—Finance. 2. Health services accessibility—United States. 3. Insurance, Health—United States. 4. Medically uninsured persons—United States. I. Edmunds, Margaret. II. Coye, Molly Joel. III. Institute of Medicine.

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COMMITTEE ON CHILDREN, HEALTH INSURANCE, AND ACCESS TO CARE

MOLLY JOEL COYE (Chair),* Director,

West Coast Office, The Lewin Group, San Francisco

IRENE AGUILAR, Primary Care Physician,

Westside Family Health Center, Denver

BRIAN K. ATCHINSON, Second Vice President,

Government Relations, UNUM, Portland, ME

STEPHEN M. BOROWITZ, Associate Professor of Pediatrics,

University of Virginia Health Sciences Center

RICHARD BUCCIARELLI, Professor,

Institute for Child Health Policy, and

Associate Chair,

Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida College of Medicine

PETER BUDETTI, Professor of Health Services Management,

Preventive Medicine and Law, and

Director,

Institute for Health Services Research and Policy Studies, Northwestern University

THOMAS W. CHAPMAN, Senior Vice President for Network Development and

Professor of Health Services Management and Policy,

The George Washington University Medical Center

MARGARET C. HEAGARTY,* Director of Pediatrics,

Harlem Hospital Center, and

Professor of Pediatrics,

College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University

ROBERT B. HELMS, Resident Scholar, Director of Health Policy Studies,

American Enterprise Institute, Washington, DC

VELVET MILLER, Deputy Commissioner,

New Jersey Department of Human Services, Trenton

ARNOLD MILSTEIN, Managing Director,

William M. Mercer, Inc., and

Medical Director,

Pacific Business Group on Health, San Francisco

PAUL NEWACHECK, Professor of Health Policy and Pediatrics,

Institute for Health Policy Studies and Department of Pediatrics, University of California at San Francisco

DAVID S. WEINER, President and CEO,

Children's Hospital, Boston

STEVEN H. WOOLF, Fairfax Family Practice Center, and Clinical Professor,

Department of Family Practice, Medical College of Virginia

Institute of Medicine Staff

MARGARET EDMUNDS, Study Director

ELISE LIPOFF, Research Associate (March 1997 through June 1997)

ANNICE HIRT, Research Assistant (March 1997 through September 1997)

KATHLEEN NOLAN, Research Assistant (November 1997 through May 1998)

TRACY MCKAY, Project Assistant

JOHN BROTHERS, Graphics Consultant

CARINA WEI-YEE FUNG, Student Intern

MICHAEL DOMBECK, Student Intern

*  

Member, Institute of Medicine.

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BOARD ON HEALTH CARE SERVICES INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE

DON E. DETMER (Chair),* Senior Vice President,

The University of Virginia

STUART H. ALTMAN,* Sol C. Chaikin Professor of National Health Policy,

The Florence Heller Graduate School for Social Policy, Brandeis University

NANCY W. DICKEY, Private Practice,

College Station, TX

B. KEN GRAY, Corporate Medical Director,

Metroplex Emergency Physician Associates, P.A., Dallas

PAUL F. GRINER,* Vice President and Director,

Center for the Assessment and Management of Change in Academic Medicine, Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington, DC

BRENT C. JAMES, Executive Director,

Institute for Health Care Delivery Research, and

Vice President,

Medical Research and Continuing Medical Education, Intermountain Health Care, Salt Lake City

JACQUELINE KOSECOFF, President and Co-Chief Executive Officer,

Value Health Sciences, Inc., Santa Monica

SHEILA T. LEATHERMAN, Executive Vice President,

Center for Health Care Policy and Evaluation, United Health Care Corporation, Minneapolis

JOHN LUDDEN, Senior Vice President for Medical Affairs,

Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Brookline

BARBARA J. McNEIL,* Ridley Watts Professor,

Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School

RUSSELL L. MILLER,

Health Science Center, State University of New York at Brooklyn

MILDRED MITCHELL-BATEMAN,* Clinical Director,

Huntington Hospital, Huntington, WV

MARY MUNDINGER,* Dean and Centennial Professor in Health Policy,

Columbia University

UWE E. REINHARDT,* James Madison Professor of Political Economy and Professor of Economics and Public Affairs,

Princeton University

MARY LEE SEIBERT, Acting Provost,

Ithaca College

GAIL L. WARDEN,* President and Chief Executive Officer,

Henry Ford Health System, Detroit

Institute of Medicine Staff

CLYDE J. BEHNEY, Deputy Executive Officer and Director,

Board on Health Care Services

*  

Member, Institute of Medicine.

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BOARD ON CHILDREN, YOUTH, AND FAMILIES NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL AND INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE

JACK P. SHONKOFF (Chair), Professor and Dean,

Heller Graduate School, Brandeis University

DAVID V. B. BRITT, President-Chief Executive Officer,

Children's Television Workshop, New York City

LARRY BUMPASS, Professor of Sociology,

Center for Demography and Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

FERNANDO A. GUERRA, Director of Health,

San Antonio Metropolitan Health District

BERNARD GUYER,* Professor and Chairman,

Department of Maternal and Child Health, Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health

ALETHA C. HUSTON, Professor,

Department of Human Ecology, University of Texas at Austin

RENEE R. JENKINS, Professor and Chairman,

Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Howard University

SARA McLANAHAN,

Office of Population Research, Princeton University

ROBERT MICHAEL, Professor,

Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago

PAUL NEWACHECK, Professor of Health Policy,

Institute for Health Policy Studies, and Department of Pediatrics, University of California at San Francisco

MARTHA PHILLIPS, Executive Director,

The Concord Coalition, Washington, DC

JULIUS B. RICHMOND,* Professor of Health Policy,

Emeritus, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School

TIMOTHY M. SANDOS, Vice President,

Education Division, ETC, Inc., Littleton, CO

DEBORAH STIPEK, Professor of Education,

Graduate School of Education, University of California at Los Angeles

DIANA TAYLOR, Director,

Women's Health Program, Department of Family Health Nursing, University of California at San Francisco

GAIL WILENSKY,* Senior Fellow,

Project Hope, Bethesda, MD

National Research Council and Institute of Medicine Staff

DEBORAH PHILLIPS, Executive Director,

Board on Children, Youth, and Families

*  

Member, Institute of Medicine.

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PREFACE

The Committee on Children, Health Insurance, and Access to Care was asked by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to address a series of questions about health insurance for children. In addition to evaluating empirical evidence about the relationship between health insurance and access to care, the committee was asked to identify key trends in insurance coverage and in the delivery of care for uninsured children. The committee was asked to pay particular attention to changes in the provider community that might have an impact on access to care for uninsured and underserved children.

The committee approached the study as an opportunity to evaluate the strengths and limitations of insurance as a means of improving children's health. From the beginning of their deliberations, the committee members took the position that several strategies potentially could increase the number of insured children and that their task was not to recommend one particular option. Rather, they decided to evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of a wide variety of approaches and to provide the best possible analysis of the various policies that might be considered, including some that have not yet been fully implemented or evaluated.

The timing of the study brought special challenges. The committee held four meetings and a public workshop between March 1997 and January 1998. From the beginning of 1997, President Clinton and members of Congress debated a variety of proposals about insurance coverage for children, including Medicaid expansions, block grants, vouchers, tax credits, and several other strategies. In August 1997, Congress passed the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, enacting a new State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) with provisions for Medicaid expansions as well as market-based approaches to reducing the number of uninsured children.

Because of the rapid rate of ongoing change in the health care system, particularly the increasing emphasis on Medicaid managed care, the committee intended for this report to present a general framework that would apply to several programs and strategies over time. The committee prepared a separate report entitled Systems of Accountability: Implementing Children's Health Insurance Programs, to focus on the evaluation of SCHIP and its impact.

The committee included clinicians, researchers, policy analysts, and administrators. This consensus report reflects compromises made by committee members with differing views in order to reach language that each member of the committee could accept. For example, some committee members were willing to recommend universal, comprehensive coverage for all American children, while others were reluctant to do so because they felt it was beyond the scope of the study, or because they questioned the availability of resources, political will, or feasibility of comprehensive approaches. In the end, the

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committee recommended that all children should have health insurance, but did not recommend a single set of benefits or a single source of financing.

This report, then, is intended as an overview of key issues in the organization, delivery, and financing of health care for children. The audience for the report is intentionally quite broad. It includes the study's sponsor, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, as well as other philanthropic organizations; members of Congress, congressional staff, and federal agencies; governors, state legislatures, and state agencies; the public health community; providers and the many provider associations representing them; employers; health insurers; parents; and children's advocates.

The committee hopes that this report will help a variety of policy makers and other decision makers to make more informed decisions about how to achieve their multiple—and often competing—objectives as the SCHIP program is implemented across the country. The committee hopes that over time its contribution will be useful in shedding light on the impact and possible consequences of choosing various policy options to expand health insurance coverage for children.

MOLLY JOEL COYE

CHAIR

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The members of the Committee on Children, Health Insurance, and Access to Care and the study staff appreciate the assistance and contributions from many individuals and organizations during the course of the study.

We express deep appreciation to all of the individuals and groups who contributed to the public workshop on June 2, 1997. Presentations were made by the following invited speakers: Maureen Ceidro, Julius Goepp, John Goodman, Jane Horvath, Dennis Johnson, Kay Johnson, Karen LaPlante, Charles LaVallee, John McDonough, Kim Monk, Diane Rowland, and Eugene Steuerle. Public statements were made by James Bentley, Stan Dorn, Steve Edwards, Samuel Flint, Shelly Gehshan, Catherine Hess, Ross Marine, and Kathleen Means. The committee and staff are particularly grateful to Patrick Chaulk and Carl J. Schramm, who served as moderators, and J. Michael McGinnis, who aptly summarized the day's proceedings.

We also would like to thank the speakers who made invited presentations at the committee's first meeting in March 1997. They are Pamela Dickson, Burton Edelstein, Paul Fronstin, Dan Hawkins, Lawrence McAndrews, and Jacqueline Noyes.

We particularly appreciate the contributions made by Paul Fronstin of the Employee Benefits Research Institute, who analyzed and provided data especially for this study and was responsive to numerous requests for additional information. We also thank Mark Hall of Wake Forest University's School of Law and Bowman Gray School of Medicine for providing a background paper and glossary on private insurance. Jane Koppelman's insightful and helpful comments on an earlier draft of the report are gratefully acknowledged. Michael Hayes, copy editor, also made many useful contributions and suggestions to improve the report. Thanks also go to Jane Andrews, Ellen Bayer, James Crall, Shelly Gehshan, Shirley Girouard, Suzanne Hansen, Dan Hawkins, Joan Henneberry, Robert Isman, Barbara Lamb, Marjorie Shofer, Marina Weiss, and Pete Wilson for providing technical comments on draft sections of the report.

We are especially grateful to the members of the liaison panel for providing materials and public statements for the committee's consideration. The complete list of liaison panel members is included in Appendix D. Among those who were particularly active and helpful at various stages of the study are Sheila Avruch, Laura Camisa, Patrick Chaulk, Burton Edelstein, Donna Grossman, Elizabeth Hadley, Catherine Hess, Ed Howard, Ron Manderscheid, John McDonough, Kathleen Means, Ed Neuschler, and Eugene Steuerle.

The committee could not have accomplished its tasks without the steadfast and creative efforts of

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the Institute of Medicine staff, led by Margo Edmunds, the study director. Her thoughtfulness, foresight, and ingenuity in planning and managing the study were exemplary. Her efforts were supported by Elise Lipoff, research associate; Annice Hirt, research assistant; Kathleen Nolan, research assistant; Tracy McKay, project assistant; two summer interns, Carina Wei-Yee Fung and Michael Dombeck; and John Brothers, graphics consultant.

Several members of the staff of the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council made contributions to this report. Clyde Behney developed the idea for the study with the sponsor and provided guidance throughout the project. Kenneth Shine, Karen Hein, and Deborah Phillips also made several helpful comments at several stages of the project. Others who made contributions are Drusilla Barnes, Sue Barron, Mona Brinegar, Claudia Carl, Margo Cullen, Molla Donaldson, Jane Durch, Mike Edington, Robert Epstein, Marilyn Field, Kay Harris, Roger Herdman, Carrie Ingalls, Jeff Isenhour, Jim Jensen, Patricia Kaiser, Linda Kilroy, Michele Kipke, Jeffrey Koshel, Karen Kreiger, Marion Ein Lewin, Cathy Liverman, Luis Nunez, Constance Pechura, Deborah Phillips, Barbara Kline Pope, Dan Quinn, Barbara Rice, Kristen Robinson, Evelyn Simeon, Mary Lee Schneiders, Sally Stanfield, Michael Stoto, Kathleen Stratton, and Gooloo Wunderlich.

This report has been reviewed by individuals chosen for their diverse perspectives and technical expertise, in accordance with procedures approved by the National Research Council's Report Review Committee. The purpose of this independent review is to provide candid and critical comments that will assist the authors and the IOM in making the published report as sound as possible and to ensure that the report meets institutional standards for objectivity, evidence, and responsiveness to the study charge. The content of the review comments and the draft manuscript remain confidential to protect the integrity of the deliberative process. We wish to thank the following individuals for their participation in the review process: John Bartkowski, Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers, Inc., Milwaukee, WI; Judith Feder, Georgetown University Institute for Health Care, Public Policy, and Research, Washington, DC; Julius Goepp, Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester, NY; Bernard Guyer, Department of Maternal and Child Health, Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, MD; Mark Hall, Wake Forest University School of Law and Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC; and Melvin Worth, IOM Scholar in Residence.

While the individuals listed above have provided many constructive comments and suggestions, responsibility for the final content of this report rests solely with the authoring committee and the IOM.

The study was undertaken with the support of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The contributions of Foundation staff members Pamela Dickson, senior program officer, Robert Hughes, vice president, and Judith Whang, program officer, are gratefully acknowledged.

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Part II:
Financing Health Care For Children

 

 

4

 

Safety Net Providers

 

67

   

Definition of Safety Net

 

67

   

Sources of Funding for Safety Net Providers

 

68

   

Disproportionate Share Hospital Payments

 

70

   

Community Health Centers

 

70

   

Children's Hospitals

 

72

   

Public Health Departments

 

75

   

School-Based Health Centers

 

79

   

Implications

 

79

   

References

 

80

5

 

Medicaid

 

81

   

History and Overview of the Medicaid Program

 

81

   

Eligibility

 

83

   

Access to Care

 

86

   

Scope of Services

 

90

   

Medicaid Managed Care

 

94

   

Impact of Recent Federal Legislation

 

96

   

Implications

 

99

   

References

 

100

6

 

State And Private Insurance Initiatives

 

102

   

Background

 

102

   

Designing Children's Insurance Programs

 

104

   

Profiles of State-Sponsored Programs

 

110

   

Private Programs

 

115

   

Summary and Implications

 

118

   

References

 

118

7

 

Children's Health Care Needs

 

120

   

Epidemiology of Illnesses in Children

 

121

   

Public Coverage for Special Health Care Needs

 

127

   

Financial Barriers Associated with Special Needs

 

129

   

Nonfinancial Barriers for Special Needs Children

 

129

   

Information Technology

 

133

   

Access Under Managed Care

 

133

   

Implications for Children's Insurance Expansions

 

136

   

References

 

137

Appendixes

 

 

A

 

Market-Based Approaches to Insurance Reform, by Robert B. Helms

 

143

B

 

Information for Accountability

 

155

C

 

Public Workshop Agenda and Participants

 

170

D

 

Members of Liaison Panel

 

177

E

 

Committee and Staff Biographies

 

185

Index

 

189

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Boxes, Tables, and Figures

Boxes

1.1

 

Highlights of the State Children's Health Insurance Program

 

13

1.2

 

Headlines in The New York Times: Children's Health Care Coverage, 1996-1997

 

15

1.3

 

Data and Information Reviewed for This Report

 

17

3.1

 

Benefits Recommended by the National Forum on the Future of Children and Families

 

58

3.2

 

U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommended Routine Preventive Services for Children (0-10 years)

 

59

3.3

 

American Academy of Pediatrics Recommended Health Care Services for Children and Adolescents

 

60

3.4

 

Services Allowed Under SCHIP

 

61

5.1

 

A Brief History of Medicaid Legislation Concerning Children

 

84

5.2

 

Medicaid Services

 

91

5.3

 

EPSDT Health Services Requirements

 

93

7.1

 

Supplemental Security Income Program

 

130

7.2

 

Caregivers' Time Costs

 

132

7.3

 

Scenarios Demonstrating Increased Access to Care via Information Technology

 

134

Tables

2.1

 

Trends in Health Insurance Coverage Among Children, Ages 0-17, United States, 1987-1995 (percent)

 

24

2.2

 

Trends in Health Insurance Coverage Among Adults, 1987-1995 (percent), Ages 18-64, United States, 1987-1998 (percent)

 

24

2.3

 

Trends in Health Insurance Coverage by Actual Numbers Among Children, Ages 0-17, United States, 1987-1995

 

26

2.4

 

Trends in Health Insurance Coverage Among Adults, Ages 18-64, United States, 1987-1995 (millions)

 

26

2.5

 

Federal Poverty Thresholds, by Size of Family, United States, 1995

 

38

2.6

 

Number and Percentage of Children Without Health Insurance Coverage, Ages 0-17 by Number of Consecutive Months Without Coverage, United States, 1992-1994

 

39

3.1

 

Hospitalizations for Ambulatory Care-Sensitive Conditions per 1,000 Children Under Age 5, by Area of Residence, United States, 1989

 

48

3.2

 

Urgent and Nonurgent Emergency Room Visits for Children Under Age 15, United States, 1995

 

51

3.3

 

Drivers of Health Care Dollars, United States, 1993

 

57

4.1

 

Sources and Amounts of Funding for Selected Safety Net Programs in Health Services, United States, 1992-1995

 

69

4.2

 

National Cost of Uncompensated Care for Registered Community Hospitals, United States, 1987-1995

 

71

4.3

 

Insurance Status of CHC Patients, United States, Selected Years, 1980-1995

 

73

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4.4

 

CHC Federal Grant Funds and Number of Patients, United States, Selected Years, 1980-1995

 

74

4.5

 

Trends in Hospital Admissions, Length of Stay, and Percentage of Care Devoted to Low-Income Patients, Freestanding Children's Hospitals, United States, Selected Fiscal Years, 1990-1995

 

77

4.6

 

Percentage of City and County Health Departments Offering Selected Health Care Programs, United States, 1992-1993

 

78

5.1

 

Trends in Managed Care and Fee-for-Service Enrollment under Medicaid, United States, 1991-1996

 

95

5.2

 

Comparison of Prior Welfare Laws and the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (P.L. 104-193), United States

 

97

6.1

 

State Initiatives to Expand Coverage to Children (as of May 1997)

 

103

6.2

 

Eligibility Criteria for Programs Providing Health Care Coverage for Children (as of May 1996)

 

106

6.3

 

Scope of Benefits of Programs Providing Health Care for Children

 

109

6.4

 

Premium Subsidy Structure for State-Subsidized Insurance Programs

 

111

7.1

 

Children's Needs for Health Care, United States, 1992

 

121

7.2

 

Number of Acute Conditions Per 100 Persons Per Year, for Children and All Ages, United States, 1994

 

122

Figures

2.1

 

Trends in health insurance coverage among children, ages 0-17, United States, 1987-1995

 

28

2.2

 

Trends in health insurance coverage among adults, ages 18-64, United States, 1987-1995

 

28

2.3

 

Comparison of trends in health insurance coverage for adults, ages 18-64, and children, ages 0-17, United States, 1987-1995

 

29

2.4

 

Patterns of children's health insurance coverage by age, for employer-based insurance, Medicaid, and children without coverage, United States, 1995

 

30

2.5

 

Children's health insurance coverage within age groups, for employer-based insurance, Medicaid, and uninsured children, United States, 1995

 

31

2.6

 

Health insurance coverage among children by race and ethnicity, United States, 1995

 

32

2.7

 

Patterns of health insurance coverage among children by race and ethnicity, United States, 1995

 

33

2.8

 

Characteristics of families of children with employer-based insurance,ages 0-17, United States, 1995

 

35

2.9

 

Characteristics of families of children with Medicaid coverage, ages 0-17, United States, 1995

 

36

2.10

 

Characteristics of families of uninsured children, ages 0-17, United States, 1995

 

37

2.11

 

Percentage of children without health insurance coverage, ages 0-17, by number of consecutive months without coverage, United States, 1992-1994

 

39

2.12

 

Distribution of uninsured children by state, 1995

 

40

3.1

 

A framework for approaching financial and nonfinancial influences on access

 

45

3.2

 

Hospitalizations for ambulatory care-sensitive conditions per 1,000 children under age 5, United States, 1989

 

48

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3.3

 

Vaccinations against selected diseases for children ages 19-35 months by poverty status, United States, 1994

 

49

3.4

 

Vaccinations of children ages 19-35 months for selected diseases, by race, United States, 1994

 

49

3.5

 

Urgent and nonurgent emergency room visits for children under age 15, United States, 1995

 

51

3.6

 

Drivers of health care dollars, United States, 1993

 

57

4.1

 

National cost of uncompensated care in registered community hospitals, United States, 1987-1995

 

71

4.2

 

CHC patients by payer source, United States, selected years, 1980-1995

 

73

4.3

 

CHC federal grant funds and number of patients, United States, selected years, 1980-1995

 

74

4.4

 

Percentage of revenues from public and private sources for children'shospitals, United States, 1995

 

76

4.5

 

Average gross revenue per freestanding acute-care children's hospital, United States, 1991-1995

 

76

4.6

 

Sources and percentages of funding for local health departments, United States, 1992-1993

 

78

5.1

 

Medicaid beneficiaries and expenditures, by enrollment group, United States, 1995

 

82

5.2

 

Trends in the number of Medicaid recipients, by enrollment group, United States, 1987-1995

 

82

5.3

 

State Medicaid expenditures as a percentage of total state expenditures, by fiscal year, United States, 1987-1996

 

86

5.4

 

Trends in the number of dependent children ages 0-21 years receiving Medicaid, United States, 1980-1995

 

87

5.5

 

Trends in the average annual cost per dependent child receiving Medicaid, United States, 1980-1995

 

87

5.6

 

Percentage of Medicaid recipients enrolled in fee-for-service and managed care plans, United States, 1991-1996

 

95

7.1

 

Number of children ages 0-17 with selected chronic conditions, United States

 

124

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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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