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 [...]
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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 »
How Medicaid/CHIP stepped in when employers stepped out
Posted in Children's health, Children's health insurance program, CHIP, Texas Medicaid, uninsured, tagged children's health, children's Medicaid, Employer health insurance, Fort Worth CHIP, MACPAC, Tarrant County CHIP, Texas uninsured on March 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
We hear a lot these days about how employers may drop out of providing health insurance to their workers. Under health reform, large employers will be required to offer insurance or pay a penalty. (This idea actually was originally proposed by former President Richard Nixon.) So, last week, a federal agency released a new report, [...]
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