childrenThe United Nations General Assembly adopted the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs)in September 2015.Through this,governments have also committed to universal health coverage(UHC)as a development sub-goal within the SDG health field(1-2).In its effort to fully safeguard universal child ...
As described in more detail in our April 28, 2010 Client Alert entitled “Important IRS Guidance on Tax Treatment of Health Coverage for Children Under Age 27,”[click here]employers are permitted to exclude from an employee’s taxable income the value of any employer-provided health coverage f...
Making health care coverage depend on the existence of valid, applicable research data and positive cost-effectiveness analyses, as managed care contracts are beginning to do, is particularly problematic for children. Because of research challenges specific to children, there are relatively few pediatric...
Significant progress has been made through Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) in recent years to get health insurance to families who cannot afford it. However, children being raised by their grandparents or other relative caregivers are often harder than other groups to re...
Health Care Reform: IRS Guidance on Health Coverage for Children Under Age 27.Kerpen, Joanna
New York and the nation stand at the brink of an unprecedented opportunity to improve health care coverage and access for children. New York can continue to be a national leader in ensuring access to coverage and care for low-income children by combining eligibility expansions with effective outre...
(HealthDay)—Nearly 1 million U.S. children gained health insurance the first year after the Affordable Care Act—also called Obamacare—was fully implemented, a new report shows.
Still, it is appropriate to consider that millions of this nation's children lack health insurance. A plan to provide such coverage through universal insurance would cover a set of defined benefits and be means tested at the upper end of incomes. It would create a rational replacement for a ...
文档标签: instability of public health insurance coverage for children 系统标签: instability children coverage insurance public health INSTABILITYOFPUBLICHEALTHINSURANCECOVERAGEFORCHILDRENANDTHEIRFAMILIES:CAUSES,CONSEQUENCES,ANDREMEDIESLauraSummerandCindyMannGeorgetownUniversityHealthPolicyInstituteJune2006ABSTRACT:Thisrep...
This report examines the extent, causes, and consequences of instability in public coverage programs for children and families. It focuses particularly on the phenomenon of "churning," which occurs when individuals lose and regain coverage in a short period of time. It also looks at strategies to...