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Download full textArkansas Advocates for Children and Families, Little Rock. – 2000
This Kids Count special report examines the relationship between poverty status and the number of children in Arkansas lacking health insurance. The report also presents information on two programs providing health care to Arkansas children whose parents lack insurance coverage, Medicaid and ARKids First. The report describes how these two…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Health, Children, Federal Programs
Ullman, Frank; Hill, Ian; Almeida, Ruth – 1999
This brief provides a snapshot of the types and scale of expansions that states have adopted in the early implementation phase of the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), a program to expand health coverage for low-income children up to age 19. In addition, the brief examines how coverage expansions vary in relation to state…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Children, Eligibility, Health Insurance
Almeida, Ruth A.; Kenney, Genevieve M. – 2000
Data from the 1997 National Survey of America's Families (NSAF) are analyzed to estimate the number and composition of children lacking health insurance prior to the implementation of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). The NSAF is a survey of children and adults under the age of 65 in more than 44,000 households, conducted as…
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, Children, Federal Programs, Health Insurance
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Direct linkWolfe, Barbara; Scrivner, Scott – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2005
In this paper, we explore whether the specific design of a state's program has contributed to its success in meeting two objectives of the Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP): increasing the health insurance coverage of children in lower-income families and doing so with a minimum reduction in their private health insurance coverage…
Descriptors: State Programs, Poverty, Eligibility, Health Insurance
