More than 35.6 million children were enrolled in Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) in December 2016— accounting for just over half of total Medicaid and CHIP enrollment.1 Medicaid and CHIP are particularly important in rural areas where 77.1 percent of children in households with income below 200 percent of the federal poverty level (FPL) are covered by public insurance...

Workers' compensation programs provide protection to workers and their families. The programs compensate for lost wages and medical expenses incurred as a result of work-related injuries or illnesses. Survivor benefits are also provided when the disabilities result in death. In 1991, about $16.8 billion in medical benefits and $25.3 billion in wage-loss compensation was paid in settlement of cl...

• Fourth annual survey: This Issue Brief presents findings from the 2008 EBRI Consumer Engagement in Health Care Survey, which provides nationally representative data regarding the growth of account-based health plans and high-deductible health plans (HDHPs) and the impact of these plans and consumer engagement more generally on the behavior and attitudes of adults with private health insurance...

BACKGROUND This paper presents an evaluation of Avahan, a large scale HIV prevention program that was implemented using peer-mediated strategies, condom distribution and sexually transmitted infection (STI) clinical services among high-risk men who have sex with men (HR-MSM) and male to female transgender persons (TGs) in six high-prevalence state of Tamil Nadu, in southern India. METHODS Two...

• mandatory expansion of Medicaid programs to cover individuals in households with incomes below 133 percent of the federal poverty level ($14,484 for a single person and $29,726 for a family of four in 2010) • a requirement that states develop and run health insurance exchanges through which individuals and small businesses can purchase health care coverage • a provision that large and mid-siz...

The number of Americans without health insurance fell from 44.3 million to 42.6 million in 1999, the first decline since 1987. More than half of this decline of 1.7 million people was driven by improvements in the extent to which children have health care coverage. Between 1998 and 1999, the number of uninsured children dropped by one million, accounting for nearly 60 percent of the total decli...

Low-income workers face the highest gap in health coverage; 37.3 percent were uninsured in 1999. Although employer-sponsored insurance covered many more low-income workers, state programs are very important to those without private insurance. We examined the wide variations across thirteen representative states in public insurance coverage of low-income workers to develop insights into the reas...

The United States has made a large effort to expand health insurance coverage of low-income children through the Medicaid program. This has continued more recently with the Children's Health Insurance Program. Largely as a result of Medicaid, children are much less likely to be uninsured than adults. Three-quarters of the uninsured in the United States are adults, and 37 percent of adults with ...