State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)

This brief from the Urban Institute examines the characteristics of the children who remain uninsured and the prospect for enrolling them in public coverage. According to new coverage estimates released in September 2009, the number of children without health insurance coverage declined by about 800,000 between 2007 and 2008—reaching its lowest level in over a decade. However, despite this progress, an estimated 5 million children are eligible for programs like Medicaid or CHIP, but are not enrolled—falling through the cracks in most states.

Issue brief explores outreach effort under Maryland’s Kids First Act and identifies lessons learned for other states.

Between July 2007 and November 2007, Families USA Foundation conducted a public education campaign about how low-income children would benefit if Congress expanded the State Children's Health Insurance Program, which came up for reauthorization in 2007.

New policy brief examines proposals for expanding Medicaid and CHIP and the consequences for low-Income people.

New Urban Institute research estimates that only 440,000 kids who are currently eligible for public insurance might be covered privately if their parents received government support to pay a share of their employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) premiums.

This document provides a brief overview of some of the policy and programmatic issues that were addressed in legislation to reauthorize the State Children's Health Insurance Program during the summer and fall of 2007.

This report finds that once children enrolled in SCHIP leave public insurance, they are far more likely to become uninsured, and remain uninsured for some time, than they are to obtain private coverage.

Available research suggests that states can make small policy changes that can have a big impact on enrollment of eligible children. This paper revisits the ideas summarized in the Seven Steps brief by the National Academy of State Health Policy which provides more concrete information for states seeking to take the next step in enrolling more uninsured children who are eligible for Medicaid or SCHIP, but not enrolled.

This brief examines work done by Covering Kids & Families (CKF) in Washington state in the three key CKF strategy areas: outreach, simplification and coordination.