POL 536 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act, Durable Medical Equipment, Race And Ethnicity In The United States Census
6 Feb 2018
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States are often prohibited from imposing premium & cost-sharing for children enrolled in. States have more flexibility around benefits & cost-sharing in separate chip programs. In both medicaid & chip, total premium & cost-sharing expenses can"t go over 5% of family income: children with medicaid coverage have significantly better access to care than uninsured children, Some studies have found medicaid & chip coverage contribute to improved health outcomes, including reductions in avoidable hospitalizations & positive impacts on child mortality: research suggests medicaid & chip coverage contributes to improvements in school performance. Recent legislation related to children"s coverage: the affordable care act (aca) continued & bolstered efforts to cover children through medicaid & Chip: aca p(cid:396)ote(cid:272)ts (cid:272)hild(cid:396)e(cid:374)"s (cid:272)o(cid:448)e(cid:396)age (cid:271)(cid:455) (cid:396)e(cid:395)uiring states to maintain eligibility thresholds for children at least equal to those they had in place at the time the law was enacted through september 30,
