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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘uninsured children Texas’
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 »
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. [...]
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. [...]
Comparing Medicaid managed care across the states
Posted in Children's health insurance program, Medicaid, Texas Medicaid, tagged children's Medicaid, CHIP, Medicaid, Tarrant County CHIP, Tarrant County uninsured, uninsured children Texas on September 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Last week, the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured released its “Profile of Medicaid Managed Care Programs in 2010: Findings from a 50-State Survey.” Nearly all privately insured Americans have been in managed care plans for a couple decades, but Medicaid has been a laggard. It’s catching up. About three-fourths of all Medicaid members [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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