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Title: Children’s Coverage Climb Continues: Uninsurance and Medicaid/ CHIP Eligibility and Participation Under the ACA

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Publication Year: 2016

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Abstract: Public coverage options for children have expanded dramatically over the past several decades. By 2014, before the major coverage provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) were implemented, a majority of states—28 states— covered children in families with incomes up to 250 percent of the federal poverty level (FPL) or higher under Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), while only three states limited eligibility to children living below 200 percent of the FPL. In contrast, in 2000, shortly after the implementation of CHIP, only 11 states had eligibility levels of 250 percent of FPL or higher and 14 states had eligibility levels below 200 percent of FPL (Artiga and Cornachione 2016). Many states have also eliminated barriers to children’s Medicaid/CHIP enrollment and renewal, providing streamlined enrollment and renewal processes, greater outreach and availability of enrollment assistance, continuous enrollment, electronic data matching, and simplified verification procedures (Stephens and Artiga 2013).

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Authors: Kenney, Genevieve, M; Haley, Jennifer; Pan, Clare; Lynch, Victoria; Buettgens, Matthew

Publisher: Urban Institute

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Health, Other, Population Health and Health Systems

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