It’s been an interesting week with all the hot air and hot weather. Thanks to an outcry from advocates, Medicaid was exempted from the federal budget cuts. If you want to read more detail on the agreement and what led up to it, click here for some great slides “What’s the Deal” from the Interreligious Working Group [...]
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Holding up the safety net
Posted in Children's health, Children's health insurance program, CHIP, Medicaid, Texas Medicaid, uninsured, tagged children's health insurance program, children's Medicaid, CHIP, Everman schools, Medicaid, safety net, Tarrant County CHIP, Tarrant County uninsured, Texas uninsured on August 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Be the angels among us
Posted in Children's health, Children's health insurance program, CHIP, Medicaid, tagged children's Medicaid, Employer health insurance, health reform, Medicaid, Tarrant County CHIP, Tarrant County uninsured, uninsured children Texas on August 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Remember that Alabama song “Angels Among Us”? When life held troubled times, and had me down on my knees There’s always been someone to come along and comfort me I believe there are angels among us Sent down to us from somewhere up above They come to you and me in our darkest hours To [...]
Listening for our kids in a noisy world
Posted in access, Children's health, Children's health insurance program, CHIP, health reform, Medicaid, Texas Medicaid, uninsured, tagged children's health, children's Medicaid, Tarrant County CHIP, Tarrant County uninsured, uninsured children Texas on July 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It’s so hot here in Dallas-Fort Worth; it’s hard to know what’s going on beyond the heat outside and political heat in DC. What really gets me steamed, though, is how much of the DC rhetoric is framed in partisan terms. Call me an outlier, but I don’t care what party you’re from. I want [...]
Wal-Mart takes on Medicaid — why you should care
Posted in Children's health, Children's health insurance program, Medicaid, Texas Medicaid, uninsured, tagged Wal-Mart on July 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
For me, the story of the week was about how Wal-Mart is taking on Medicaid bureaucracy in Arkansas. A CNN Money story said that Wal-Mart is training its in-house team of 142 lawyers to help patients with an array of issues associated with Medicaid. They’re training them how to fill out the right forms, and [...]
Were children the Biggest Losers in the Texas legislative session?
Posted in access, Children's health, Children's health insurance program, CHIP, emergency room, Medicaid, Texas Medicaid, tagged children's health, children's health insurance program, Medicaid, uninsured children Texas on June 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I know I should be feeling good that the Legislature passed and Gov. Rick Perry signed the Light Bulb Freedom of Choice Act. Thank goodness, I can still buy whatever light bulbs I want, regardless of how inefficient they are. And, according to the news, the anti-groping legislation is still alive, legislation that Rep. David [...]
Texas spends larger percent of Medicaid funding on children
Posted in Children's health, Children's health insurance program, CHIP, Medicaid, Texas Medicaid, tagged children's Medicaid, MACPAC, Medicaid, Tarrant County uninsured, uninsured children Texas on June 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This month, the federal Medicaid/CHIP Commission (also known as MACPAC) released its June report to Congress, and it had some interesting state-by-state comparisons. The figures are for 2008, so they’re a bit dated but I assume they’re the latest available for all 50 states. According to the tables, Texas spent 35% of Medicaid funding on [...]
Access to specialists for Medicaid kids isn’t equal and it’s not right
Posted in access, Children's health, Children's health insurance program, CHIP, emergency room, Medicaid, Texas Medicaid, tagged children's health, children's Medicaid, Medicaid, Rockefeller, Tarrant County CHIP, Tarrant County uninsured, uninsured children Texas on June 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I was in Amsterdam for a meeting last week, and so there’s lots to catch up on. First, I want to say how it’s always kind of jarring to be around healthcare people in Europe where universal coverage is a given. It seems like in the US we’re always fighting, fighting to get our kids [...]
Fun facts and no-fun facts about children’s healthcare in Texas
Posted in Children's health, Children's health insurance program, CHIP, Medicaid, Texas Medicaid, uninsured, tagged children's health, children's health insurance program, children's Medicaid, Tarrant County CHIP, Tarrant County uninsured, Texas uninsured, uninsured children Texas on June 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It was great to see about 200 people last week at the Fort Worth Kids Count lunch, sponsored by CPPP, United Way and others. A lot of great data, and it inspired me devote this week’s update to facts that were of interest to me, and hopefully, to you. Between 2000 and 2009, 2 million [...]
Health insurance isn’t on any kid’s wish list
Posted in access, Children's health, CHIP, Medicaid, uninsured, tagged children's Medicaid, CHIPRA, Fort Worth CHIP, Methodist church, Tarrant County uninsured, Texas uninsured on April 25, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Kids might want a good push on the swing, A’s on their math quiz, parents who won’t embarrass them, schoolmates who won’t bully them, a foul ball at the Rangers game, ice cream with sprinkles. But no kid says — I want health insurance. Kids don’t know they need insurance. But, that’s the way the world works here in [...]
Tarrant County children’s Medicaid and CHIP enrollments up for the year
Posted in Children's health, Children's health insurance program, Medicaid, Texas Medicaid, uninsured, tagged children's health insurance program, children's Medicaid, Tarrant County CHIP, Tarrant County uninsured, uninsured children Texas on April 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Tarrant County enrollments were up slightly this month, after a slight drop in March. All in all, Tarrant County fared better than the state as a whole, which has experienced a drop of 15,771 kids off Medicaid and CHIP (mostly Medicaid) during the last two months. We’re still up for the year: 926 more Tarrant [...]
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