SCHIP expansion and parental coverage: An evaluation of Wisconsin's BadgerCare

Wolfe, Barbara; Kaplan, Thomas; Haveman, Robert; Cho, Yoonyoung

doi:10.1016/j.jhealeco.2005.12.005

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“… 4. Although employment information is available in CARES, Wolfe et al (2006) found it to be of very low quality relative to UI information. Thus, we do not use employment information from CARES.…”

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What Fraction of Medicaid Enrollees Have Private Insurance Coverage at the Time of Enrollment? Estimates from Administrative Data

Dague

DeLeire

Friedsam

et al. 2014

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We use administrative data from Wisconsin to determine the fraction of new Medicaid enrollees who have private health insurance at the time of enrollment in the program. Through the linkage of several administrative data sources not previously used for research, we are able to observe coverage status directly for a large fraction of enrollees and indirectly for the remainder. We provide strict bounds for the percentages in each status and find that the percentage of new enrollees with private insurance coverage at the time of enrollment lies between 16 percent and 29 percent, and the percentage that dropped private coverage in favor of public insurance lies between 4 percent and 18 percent. Our point estimates indicate that, among all new enrollees, 21 percent had private health insurance at the time of enrollment and that 10 percent dropped this coverage. Our results show substantially lower rates than previous studies of crowd-out following public health insurance expansions and significant rates of dual coverage, whereby new enrollees into public insurance retain their previously held private insurance coverage.

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What Fraction of Medicaid Enrollees Have Private Insurance Coverage at the Time of Enrollment? Estimates from Administrative Data

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DeLeire

Friedsam

et al. 2014

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“…All low to moderate-income families, with a child under the age of 19, who do not qualify for Medicaid in Wisconsin are eligible for BadgerCare. It has been estimated that BadgerCare increased the public healthcare coverage of all adults previously receiving cash assistance from Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) or Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) by about 17-25% points (Wolfe et al 2006). Several studies have reported that SCHIP expansion in coverage reduced the likelihood that a parent will report forgoing needed medical care due to cost and an increased utilization of preventative care (Buchmueller et al 2005; Busch and Duchovny 2005; Guendelman et al 2006; Yu et al 2008).…”

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Healthcare-Related Financial Burden Among Families in the U.S.: The Role of Childhood Activity Limitations and Income

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This study examined the impact of childhood activity limitations on family financial burden in the U.S. We used ten complete panels (1996-2006) of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) to evaluate the burden of out-of-pocket healthcare expenditures for 17,857 families with children aged 0-17 years. Multivariate generalized linear models were used to examine the relationship between childhood activity limitation status and both absolute and relative financial burden. Families of children with limitations had higher absolute out-of-pocket healthcare expenditures than families of children without limitations ($594.36 higher; p<0.05), and were 54% more likely to experience relative burden (p<0.05). Substantial socioeconomic disparities in financial burden were observed. Policies are needed to enable these families to access appropriate and affordable healthcare services.

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“…Most W-2 participants qualified for Medicaid, but New Hope’s advantage was that it provided affordable health care regardless of welfare or family status, either through HMOs used by Medicaid or through supplementing payments for employer-based insurance (Huston et al, 2003). By 1999, Wisconsin had created BadgerCare, which offered medical insurance to uninsured families with children whose incomes were less than 185 percent of the FPL (200 percent of FPL for continuing enrollees; Wolfe et al, 2006). …”

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The long‐term effects on children and adolescents of a policy providing work supports for low‐income parents

Huston

Gupta²,

Walker

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New Hope, an employment-based poverty-reduction intervention for adults evaluated in a random-assignment experimental design, had positive impacts on children’s achievement and social behavior two and five years after random assignment. The question addressed in this paper was the following: Did the positive effects of New Hope on younger children diminish or even reverse when children reached the challenges of adolescence (eight years after random assignment)? Small positive impacts on school progress, school motivation, positive social behavior, child well-being, and parent control endured, but impacts on school achievement and problem behavior were no longer evident. The most likely reasons for lasting impacts were that New Hope families were slightly less likely to be poor, and children had spent more time in center-based child care and structured activities. New Hope represents a model policy that could produce modest improvements in the lives of low-income adults and children.

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SCHIP expansion and parental coverage: An evaluation of Wisconsin's BadgerCare

Cited by 11 publications

References 11 publications

What Fraction of Medicaid Enrollees Have Private Insurance Coverage at the Time of Enrollment? Estimates from Administrative Data

What Fraction of Medicaid Enrollees Have Private Insurance Coverage at the Time of Enrollment? Estimates from Administrative Data

Healthcare-Related Financial Burden Among Families in the U.S.: The Role of Childhood Activity Limitations and Income

The long‐term effects on children and adolescents of a policy providing work supports for low‐income parents

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