May 6, 2013
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Program Result
The Covering Kids & Families program was designed to find, enroll and retain eligible children and adults in federal and state health care coverage programs. Statewide and local coalitions in all 50 states and the District of Columbia participated.
March 25, 2013
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Program Result
Researchers at the Hilltop Institute evaluated the implementation of Maryland’s tax-based outreach initiative, the Kids First Act, and how well the state achieved its goal of identifying and enrolling uninsured children eligible for Medicaid or CHIP.
February 16, 2012
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Program Result
Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Washington were among the first to offer CHIP to children in families earning more than 200 percent of the federal poverty line. Researchers at UCLA and the RAND Corp. evaluated the impact of this effort.
January 26, 2011
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Program Result
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Emergency Department Consistent Care Program was established under the Foundation's Access Initiative, which awarded grants to 18 sites participating in the Covering Kids & Families national program.
January 12, 2011
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Program Result
Focus groups and nationwide opinion polls identified the best language and arguments for advocates and legislators to use when communicating the needs of children during the congressional health care reform debate.
October 18, 2010
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Program Result
The Urban Institute researched policy options and produced a policy paper to help states implement "automated enrollment," a strategy designed to ensure that eligible children enroll in publicly supported health insurance programs.
October 8, 2010
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Program Result
In January 2009, with the U.S. Congress and president Barack Obama's new administration preparing to consider national health care legislation, Families USA organized Health Action 2009 around the theme "Winning Historic Health Care Reform."
March 2, 2010
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Program Result
One of the Covering Kids & Families strategies was to help grantees improve and simplify the administrative processes for determining eligibility, enrolling eligible children and families in Medicaid or CHIP and retaining them in coverage.
March 2, 2010
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Program Result
Indiana Covering Kids & Families set as one of its early goals to stimulate conversation and collaboration between two agencies: one administering the school lunch program and the other eligibility for CHIP and other public health insurance.
March 2, 2010
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Program Result
In 2003, some 374,000 Florida children were potentially eligible for KidCare, the state's Children’s Health Insurance Program, but were not enrolled. The Covering Kids & Families statewide coalition faced an array of obstacles to closing the gap.
