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WHO’S COUNTING? What is crowd-out, how big is it and does it matter for SCHIP?


Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Speakers

Lisa Dubay, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Speaker
Ann Clemency Kohler, New Jersey Department of Human Services, Speaker
Peter Orszag, Congressional Budget Office, Speaker
Janet Trautwein, National Association of Health Underwriters, Speaker

Transcript, Event Summary and/or Webcast and Podcast

Transcript: Who's Counting? What is crowd-out, how big is it and does it matter for SCHIP? (Adobe Acrobat PDF), 8/29/2007
Full Webcast/Podcast: Who's counting? What is crowd-out, how big is it and does it matter for SCHIP?
The transcript, full webcast and podcast for this briefing are provided by Kaiser Family Foundation.

Speaker Presentations

Dubay - Crowd-Out Under SCHIP: Looking Back and Moving Forward (PowerPoint), 8/29/2007
Orszag - Presentation to the Alliance for Health Reform (PowerPoint), 8/29/2007
Trautwein - Alliance for Health Reform Briefing on Crowd-Out (PowerPoint), 8/29/2007
Kohler - Crowd-Out in New Jersey FamilyCare (PowerPoint), 8/29/2007

(If you want to download one or more slides from these presentations, contact us at info@allhealth or click here for instructions.)

Source Materials

Statement of Administration Policy (S. 1893) (Adobe Acrobat PDF), White House Office of Management and Budget, 7/30/2007
Statement of Administration Policy (H.R. 3162) (Adobe Acrobat PDF), White House Office of Management and Budget, 8/1/2007
Income Eligibility Levels Chart by State (Adobe Acrobat PDF), KFF - statehealthfacts.org, 1/1/2006
Has the Jury Reached a Verdict? Early Experiences with Crowd-Out Under SCHIP (Adobe Acrobat PDF), The Urban Institute, 6/1/2001
Understanding the Dynamics of Crowd Out (Adobe Acrobat PDF), Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization Program, 6/1/2001
Conservatives Combat SCHIP with Fuzzy Math (Adobe Acrobat PDF), The New Republic Online, 6/15/2007
Instability of Public Health Insurance Coverage for Children and Their Families (Adobe Acrobat PDF), The Commonwealth Fund, 6/1/2006
Estimates of Changes in SCHIP and Medicaid Enrollment of Children Under H.R. 3162 (Adobe Acrobat PDF), Congressional Budget Office, 7/27/2007
The State Children's Health Insurance Program (Adobe Acrobat PDF), Congressional Budget Office, 5/1/2007
Statement of Genevieve Kenney before Committee on Finance, U.S. Senate (Adobe Acrobat PDF), The Urban Institute, 4/4/2007
SCHIP and Crowd-Out: How Public Program Expansion Reduced Private Coverage (Adobe Acrobat PDF), The Heritage Foundation, 6/21/2007
Estimate of the Effects on Direct Spending and Revenues of the CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2007 (Adobe Acrobat PDF), Congressional Budget Office, 7/26/2007
United Health Foundation Mission Statement (Adobe Acrobat PDF), United Health Foundation, 8/20/2007
Rules May Limit Health Program Aiding Children (Adobe Acrobat PDF), New York Times, 8/21/2007
Ineligible? Don't Be So Sure (Adobe Acrobat PDF), Washington Post, 8/21/2007
CMS SHO#07-001 - Letter from Dennis G. Smith Re: SCHIP (Adobe Acrobat PDF), Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, 8/17/2007
Public Perceptions of SCHIP (Adobe Acrobat PDF), Public Opinion Strategies, 8/1/2007
SCHIP Voter Opinion Poll (Adobe Acrobat PDF), Cover the Uninsured, 8/22/2007
SCHIP Letter to Sen. Baucus and Sen. Grassley (Adobe Acrobat PDF), National Association of Health Underwriters, 6/21/2007
Benefits of a SCHIP Premium Assistance Program (Adobe Acrobat PDF), National Association of Health Underwriters, 6/1/2007
SCHIP Premium Assistance FAQ (Adobe Acrobat PDF), National Association of Health Underwriters, 6/1/2007
Selected Experts List (Adobe Acrobat PDF), Alliance for Health Reform, 8/29/2007
Speaker Biographies (Adobe Acrobat PDF), Alliance for Health Reform, 8/29/2007
Additional Sources - Crowd-Out and SCHIP (Adobe Acrobat PDF), Alliance for Health Reform, 8/29/2007
Premium Assistance in Medicaid and SCHIP: Ace in the Hole or House of Cards? (Adobe Acrobat PDF), National Health Policy Forum, 7/17/2006
Premium Assistance Programs: How Are They Financed and Do States Save Money? (Adobe Acrobat PDF), Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, 10/1/2005
Revisiting Crowd-Out (Adobe Acrobat PDF), Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 9/1/2007

Offsite Materials (briefing documents saved on other websites)

Health Insurance Coverage: 2006, U.S. Census Bureau, 8/27/2007

 

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