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September 15, 2011
Shelly Gehshan: The Gap in Dental Care
Shelly Gehshan discusses the gap in dental care and how, nationwide, more than 16 million children go without seeing a dentist each year.
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- Featured Collection
- Children's Dental Campaign
Funding Children's Dental Care
The Pew Children’s Dental Campaign is partnering with dental provider associations, consumer groups and children’s advocates at the state and federal levels to increase federal support for Medicaid and CHIP and ensure federal requirements make it easier for states to operate successful dental programs. more
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- Research & Analysis
- Children's Dental Campaign
Washington's ABCD Program
This 2010 Pew Center on the States report looked at how dental care remains the greatest unmet need for health services among children.
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- Stateline Story
Congress Tackles States' Agenda
As the domestic agenda takes center stage in Congress, states are sending lawmakers a simple message: more money and less federal interference.more -
- Stateline Story
Health Care, REAL ID Top Govs' Priorities
The nation's governors staked out children's health care and the National Guard as top concerns for a Democratic-controlled Congress that is preoccupied with the war in Iraq, a daunting federal deficit and the problem of uninsured Americans. In their first gathering since Democrats took control of Congress last November, governors made it clear that they want to play a major role on issues that the White House and Capitol Hill will tackle in the coming year, including a popular children's health program.more -
- Stateline Story
Health Care to Top Govs' Meeting in D.C.
Health care is expected to dominate discussions when the nation's governors converge in Washington, D.C., this weekend for the National Governors Association winter meeting. Also high on the governors' agendas: use of the National Guard in Iraq, the federal No Child Left Behind education law and a sweeping new mandate to revamp drivers' licenses.more -
- Stateline Story
How Many Kids Will Congress Cover?
After a growth spurt, the 10-year-old State Children's Health Insurance program faces an identity crisis. President Bush wants to refocus its efforts on covering low-income children. But with the number of uninsured Americans swelling, some governors and advocates for children have bigger ideas - with bigger price tags.more -
- Stateline Story
States Experiment With CHIP Outreach Methods
Since Congress created the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) in 1997, states have been trying to provide health insurance to kids whose parents earn too much money to qualify for Medicaid but not enough to buy private insurance. It has not been easy. Of the estimated 11 million children without health insurance in the United States, only two million were enrolled in state CHIP programs as of December 31, 1999. Using such novel approaches as raffling off a chainsaw and locating signup teams in shopping malls, states are doing everything they can think of to boost enrollment in the program. more
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- Stateline Story
States To Lose Billions For Children's Health
As many as 37 states are set to lose more than $1 billion meant for health care for low-income children because they will miss a September deadline to spend the money. The states had three years to use a grant appropriated by Congress in 1998, but the Health Care Financing Administration estimates 75 percent of them will not meet the deadline. Among the states slated to give up funds are California and Texas, where 29 percent of the nation's uninsured children now live. more
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- Stateline Story
States Consider Covering Parents Under CHIP Program
Last month, President Clinton proposed spending $76 billion over 10 years to provide health care benefits to approximately 4 million of the nation's estimated 44 million uninsured citizens. He wants to allow matching grants to cover uninsured parents of children eligible for states' Children's Health Insurance Programs, or CHIP. The proposal has caught the attention of the nation's governors. Wisconsin already covers parents of CHIP-eligible kids using matching Medicaid funds. more
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- Stateline Story
States Advance In Extending Health Insurance To Poor Kids
The Clinton administration announced Tuesday that 47 states have enrolled almost two million children in their Children's Health Insurance Programs, double the number enrolled a year ago. To see the enrollment figures for all 50 states, see the Health Care Financing Administration report. The White House also announced Tuesday that it will ask Congress for an additional $2.7 billion to enroll children in either Medicaid or CHIP. more
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- Stateline Story
99's Top State Health Issues: Tobacco, HMOs, Eldercare
State lawmakers spent much of 1999 wrestling with how to spend their portion of the whopping $206 billion settlement with the tobacco industry, enacting patient-protection legislation and considering how to provide more services for the elderly. States were also busy getting their Children's Health Insurance Programs off the ground and signing up uninsured kids. In this, the first of a series of special reports, stateline.org looks at the state of state healthcare policy. more
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- Stateline Story
States' Children's Health Insurance Programs Get Good Report
Nearly one million children from low-income families are getting healthcare benefits under states' Children's Health Insurance Programs, or CHIPs, according to the first government report on the massive program created by Congress in 1997. In the report, the General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress, said states and the federal government have made "considerable progress" getting the program up and running despite a short implementation period and the challenges of establishing programs outside of Medicaid to insure poor children. more
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- Stateline Story
Wyoming Adopts Health Insurance For Kids Of Working Poor
Wyoming, the second to last state to construct a plan to provide health insurance to kids of the working poor, has finally adopted the necessary legislation, but it took two years and a contentious battle among lawmakers. On March 1, Republican Gov. Jim Geringer signed into law a bill that launches KidCare, Wyoming's version of the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Congress established the program in 1997 as part of the Balanced Budget Act, but Geringer and conservative legislators had long opposed the structure of CHIP, labeling it an "entitlement" program rather than a block grant, and a threat to "personal responsibility." more
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- Stateline Story
Children's Insurance Enrollment Numbers Disappointing, Experts Say
Spurred on by President Bill Clinton, Congress in 1997 created the Children's Health Insurance Program, or CHIP, a ten year, $48 billion plan to fund health care for kids of the working poor. It was the biggest federal investment in health insurance since Medicare and Medicaid were established 34 years ago. But the state-administered program is off to a slow start, with less than one in five of the estimated five million children eligible enrolled so far. The scanty participation is worrisome to some, who say the program's funding could be at risk if states cannot find and enroll more kids. more