Explores why states differ in their Medicaid coverage of the at-risk population, focusing on large disparities in Medicaid spending. To help address these disparities, suggests reconfiguring the federal matching formula for Medicaid so it accounts for the need for public coverage in each state,...

The Santa Clara County Children’s Health Initiative seeks to provide coverage through the Healthy Kids initiative to all children in the county whose family incomes are below 300 percent of the federal poverty level. This brief provides new evidence on the effects of insurance coverage on...

Assesses the extent of risk selection among managed care plans, finding substantial evidence of persistent risk selection.

This brief summarizes key findings of the Narrative Communications Project sponsored by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. This communications capacity-building grant project aimed to help state-based advocates build consensus more effectively and promote children's health insurance...

Little is known about the effectiveness of outreach activities in SCHIP. This paper identifies outreach activities and other factors that are associated with state and local trends in the number of new SCHIP enrollees.