All I want for Christmas Is a world that cares That all kids get care Everywhere Gee, if we could only have ALL kids get care, then I could wish you “Merry Christmas!” It seems so wonderful to hear That more kids have found coverage in our state Gosh, oh gee, how happy I’d be, [...]
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All I want for Christmas…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged children's health insurance program, children's Medicaid, Medicaid, Tarrant County CHIP, Texas uninsured, uninsured children Texas on December 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Good cheer!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged children's health insurance program, children's Medicaid, Medicaid, Tarrant County uninsured, uninsured children Texas on December 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
More kids found coverage this month, which is good news. In Tarrant County: 2,093 more kids were enrolled in Medicaid. CHIP enrolllment dipped by 451. Overall, 192,243 Kids were enrolled in children’s Medicaid or CHIP, a 10% increase over December 2010. In Texas: 10,135 more kids were enrolled in children’s Medicaid. CHIP enrollment dropped by [...]
Could Texas be the Prodigal Son of healthcare?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged children's health, children's Medicaid, Medicaid, Medicare, uninsured children Texas on December 14, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Last week, some new numbers came out that I had been eagerly anticipating. The federal government released state-by-state estimates of health spending. This is unusual. Each year, the government releases national spending numbers, but not by state. So, one of the things I’ve been curious about is around the Health Care Compact. Earlier this year, [...]
Congratulations, Texas! You’re the Second Most Improved!
Posted in Children's health, Children's health insurance program, CHIP, health reform, Medicaid, uninsured, tagged children's health insurance program, children's Medicaid, l, Medicaid, Tarrant County uninsured, Texas uninsured, uninsured children Texas on December 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Texas does not lead the nation in percentage of uninsured children. That privilege goes to Nevada. We’re second. That was the news this week from Georgetown University Health Policy Institute, which analyzed 2010 Census Data on uninsured children. (Click here to read the report.) The Institute also found that some states have done a much [...]
Texas’ recipe for generating more uninsured
Posted in Children's health insurance program, CHIP, Medicaid, Texas Medicaid, uninsured, tagged children's health insurance program, Employer health insurance, Medicaid, Tarrant County uninsured, Texas uninsured, uninsured children Texas on November 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Texas is widely hailed as a low-cost state. That’s true, but not for healthcare. Texans paid the 12th highest health insurance premiums in 2010, according to a new study from the Commonwealth Fund. Why is healthcare so costly here? Well, if four people went out to dinner, and one couldn’t pay, what would happen? The [...]
You might as well speak up; Lord knows everyone else is
Posted in Children's health, CHIP, tagged children's health, children's health insurance program, children's Medicaid, CHIP, Medicaid, Tarrant County uninsured, Texas uninsured, uninsured children Texas on October 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Got a couple of thousand dollars to send to the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, otherwise known as the “Super Committee”? Me neither. Don’t sweat it. We’ve already been outspent. Way outspent. You see, the congressional Super Committee is tasked with finding $1.2 trillion in deficit reduction measures by Thanksgiving. That makes them very [...]
Modernizing Medicaid, an industrial revolution under way
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged children's health, children's Medicaid, Lon Burnham, Medicaid, stimulus, Tarrant County CHIP, Tarrant County uninsured, Texas uninsured, uninsured children Texas on October 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
We hear a lot of disparaging talk about the stimulus, otherwise known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. What’s not talked about as much is how the stimulus is paying for the equivalent of an industrial revolution, i.e., moving healthcare from paper to digital formats. For years, the health industry has been [...]
You’re covered; wait — you’re not covered; OK, you’re covered again. Just get used to it
Posted in Children's health, Children's health insurance program, tagged children's health, children's Medicaid, CHIP, Medicaid, Texas uninsured, uninsured children Texas on October 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The number of children covered by CHIP and Medicaid dropped in October, both in Tarrant County and statewide. It’s discouraging, but this happens every October. Kind of insane, huh? One person explained it to me a couple of years ago that September has fewer working days so fewer state workers are available to process applications. [...]
The rising cost of health insurance for families
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged children's health insurance program, children's Medicaid, CHIP, Medicaid, Texas uninsured on October 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I have a friend who’s an executive at a health insurance company. When people ask him the biggest problem facing his company, he has a standard answer: Too many people can’t afford his product. More and more families are getting priced out of the market. Last week, Kaiser Family Foundation released its annual Employer Health [...]
Why now is not the time to block grant Medicaid in Texas
Posted in Children's health, Children's health insurance program, CHIP, tagged children's health insurance program, children's Medicaid, Medicaid, Tarrant County uninsured, Texas uninsured, uninsured children Texas on September 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
One of the topics in the Republican presidential debates has been around converting Medicaid to a block grant program. In fact, presidential contender and Gov. Rick Perry commented that block grants would solve the state’s uninsured problems: “Medicaid needs to be block-granted back to the states so we can come up with the best way. [...]
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