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1 CIS H 78164
TITLE:
Health Coverage for Families Leaving Welfare
CIS-NO:
2001-H781-64
SOURCE: Committee on Ways and Means. House
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve
the full text of testimony
DATE: May 16, 2000
LENGTH:
iii+92 p.
CONG-SESS: 106-2
ITEM-NO: 1028-A; 1028-B
SUDOC: Y4.W36:106-111
GPO-STOCK-NO: 552-070-26995-9.
SUMMARY:
Committee Serial No. 106-111. Hearing
before the Subcom on Human Resources to examine medicaid enrollment decline
associated with the replacement of the AFDC program with the Temporary
Assistance for Needy Families program in 1996, and to review Federal and State
efforts to ensure that needy families with children obtain
health insurance coverage under medicaid, the State Children's
Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), or other assistance programs
after the parents leave the welfare system and enter the workforce (Subcom
advisory, p. 2-3).
Supplementary material (p. 5-7, 91-92)
includes correspondence and a submitted statement.
CONTENT-NOTATION: Health insurance
coverage for needy families with children, welfare-to-work issues
DESCRIPTORS:
SUBCOM ON
HUMAN RESOURCES. HOUSE; HEALTH INSURANCE; PEDIATRICS;
CHILD WELFARE; AID TO FAMILIES WITH DEPENDENT CHILDREN; STATE GOVERNMENTS;
PUBLIC WELFARE PROGRAMS; EMPLOYMENT; POVERTY; MEDICAL REGULATION; MEDICAID;
TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE FOR NEEDY FAMILIES; FAMILIES
01-H781-64 TESTIMONY
NO: 1 May 16, 2000 p. 9-14
WITNESSES (and
witness notations):
STARK, FORTNEY H. (Rep, D-Calif)
STATEMENT AND DISCUSSION:
Recommendations
to increase health insurance coverage for children.
CONTENT NOTATION:
Health insurance
coverage for needy families with children, welfare-to-work issues
01-H781-64 TESTIMONY NO: 2 May 16, 2000 p.
14-25
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
HEARNE, JEAN (Specialist, Social Legislation, CRS)
STATEMENT AND DISCUSSION:
Overview of
criteria which must be met for children to become eligible for
health care coverage under medicaid.
CONTENT
NOTATION:
Health insurance coverage for
needy families with children, welfare-to-work issues
TESTIMONY
DESCRIPTORS:
CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE
01-H781-64 TESTIMONY NO: 3 May 16, 2000 p.
25-58
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
MANN, CINDY (Director, Family and Children's
Health Programs, Center for Medicaid and State Operations,
Health Care Financing Administration)
ELLWOOD, MARILYN (Senior Fellow, Mathematica Policy
Research)
POLLACK, RONALD F. (Executive Director, Families
USA)
LYONS, BARBARA (Vice President and Deputy Director,
Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, Henry J.
Kaiser Family Foundation)
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
Impact of welfare reform on medicaid enrollment (related
graphs, p. 46-52); review of Federal and State efforts to ensure that eligible
individuals are enrolled in medicaid or SCHIP; recommendations to expand
health insurance coverage for families moving from the welfare
system to the workforce.
CONTENT NOTATION:
Health insurance coverage for needy
families with children, welfare-to-work issues
TESTIMONY
DESCRIPTORS:
KAISER, HENRY J., FAMILY FOUNDATION;
STATISTICAL DATA: HEALTH AND VITAL STATISTICS; STATISTICAL
DATA: PUBLIC WELFARE AND SOCIAL SECURITY; HEALTH CARE FINANCING
ADMINISTRATION
01-H781-64 TESTIMONY NO: 4
May 16, 2000 p. 59-91
WITNESSES (and witness
notations):
SMITH, VERNON K. (Principal,
Health Management Associates)
WINSTEAD,
DON (Welfare Reform Administrator, Florida Department of Children and Families)
GIFFORD, KATHLEEN (Assistant Secretary, Office of Medicaid
Policy and Planning, Indiana Family and Social Services Administration)
MITCHELL, LYNN (Dr.) (Medicaid Director, Oklahoma
Health Care Authority)
STATEMENTS AND
DISCUSSION:
Analysis of welfare reform impact on medicaid
enrollment (related graphs, p. 64-69); review of State efforts to expand
health insurance program eligibility and streamline enrollment
process; details on efforts of represented States to increase
health insurance coverage for low-income, working families.
CONTENT NOTATION:
Health
insurance coverage for needy families with children, welfare-to-work issues
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
HEALTH MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATES; STATISTICAL
DATA: HEALTH AND VITAL STATISTICS; STATISTICAL DATA: PUBLIC
WELFARE AND SOCIAL SECURITY
LOAD-DATE: January 31, 2002
