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 [...]
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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 »
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. [...]
Children’s Medicaid/CHIP enrollment up in September
Posted in Children's health, Children's health insurance program, Medicaid, tagged children's health, children's health insurance program, children's Medicaid, CHIP, Medicaid, Tarrant County uninsured, Texas uninsured, uninsured children Texas on September 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Enrollment in children’s Medicaid and CHIP continues to grow in Tarrant County and statewide. Tarrrant County hit another new record in September: 144,964 children now depend on Medicaid 39,695 depend on CHIP Tarrant County enrollment is up 7.7% over a year ago. Texas enrollment hit a new record, too: 2.35 million kids now depend on [...]
Our future labor force and Texas’ undependable incubator
Posted in Children's health, Children's health insurance program, tagged children's health insurance program, children's Medicaid, Tarrant County CHIP, Tarrant County uninsured, Texas uninsured, uninsured children Texas on September 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’d like to opine for a few minutes about the future labor force. Let me start with a few broadbrush trends: The nation’s future labor pool is shrinking. Families are having fewer children, leading to a declining birth rate in this country made worse by what economists have called the Great Recession. Birth rates tend [...]
We’ve got our work cut out for us in Tarrant County
Posted in Children's health, Children's health insurance program, CHIP, Texas Medicaid, uninsured, tagged children's health, children's health insurance program, children's Medicaid, CHIP, Medicaid, Tarrant County uninsured, Texas uninsured, uninsured children Texas on August 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Welcome back to more hard work. Summer is over, and while the heat remains, vacations are largely a memory. Roll up your sleeves. We’re still way behind. Last week, a new Urban Institute study showed that Texas ranks first nationally in the number of children who are uninsured but eligible for Medicaid and CHIP. Of [...]
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 »
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 [...]
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 [...]
Why the healthcare compact could be bad for Texas kids and seniors
Posted in Children's health insurance program, health reform, Texas Medicaid, uninsured, tagged children's health, children's Medicaid, CHIP, Health care compact, Medicaid, Medicare, Tarrant County CHIP, Texas uninsured on May 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Would you trust your wallet to a guy who skips out on the check? Few of you may have heard about this, but Texas is about to enter into a “healthcare compact,” which could have a major effect on each us in years to come. Over the weekend, both the Texas House and Senate approved this [...]
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