May 6, 2013
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Program Result Report
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.
January 26, 2011
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Program Result Report
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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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 8, 2010
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Program Result Report
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 Report
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.
July 27, 2009
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Program Result Report
Georgetown University kept state-level officials and child health advocates apprised of important issues concerning health care coverage for children, with an emphasis on changes to the federal State Children's Health Insurance Program.
March 22, 2009
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Program Result Report
In 2006 and 2007, Families USA led the Campaign for Children's Health Care, a multipronged public education campaign to win support for expanding health coverage for uninsured children in the United States.
December 19, 2008
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Program Result Report
Families USA Foundation conducted a public education campaign about how low-income children would benefit if Congress expanded the State Children's Health Insurance Program, which came up for reauthorization in 2007.
July 11, 2008
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Program Result Report
From 1997 to 2000, researchers affiliated with the Maternal & Child Health Policy Research Center studied the role of insurance in determining children's access to primary care.
November 1, 2007
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Program Result Report
Assessing the New Federalism is an Urban Institute project that tracks the impact of state and federal policy changes on the health and social welfare of families and children, and the structure of health and social welfare programs.
