Note: As of July 1, 2007, Covering Kids & Families has closed. For current information about the uninsured in America, please visit RWJF Coverage.
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Note: As of July 1, 2007, Covering Kids & Families has closed. For current information about the uninsured in America, please visit RWJF Coverage.
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You and your children may be eligible for low-cost or free health insurance! Programs exist in every state and the District of Columbia. For information about low-cost and free children's health coverage, visit insurekidsnow.gov. For information on coverage for adults, read the Guides to Finding Health Insurance Coverage in Your State from Cover the Uninsured. 
Arkansas - Arkansas Advocates for Children & Families 
Covering Kids & Families is no longer open to subscribers. Please visit covertheuninsured.org to sign up for e-mail updates on the issue of the uninsured. |
August 17, 2006 The Role of Medicaid and SCHIP as an Insurance Safety NetSource: Urban Institute This Issue Brief, prepared by researchers at The Urban Institute with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, uses data from the Census Bureau's Current Population Survey to document the decline in health coverage from employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) for low-income adults and children between 2000 and 2004. During this period, uninsurance rates for low-income children fell by more than 2 percentage points, because Medicaid and SCHIP expansion offset the reduction in ESI. Without a similar public coverage safety net for adults, uninsured rates for adults increased nearly 3 percentage points in the same period. The Issue Brief also looks at whether public coverage tended to offset the reduction in ESI in some states more than in others. |
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