One-third of Utah kids risk becoming impoverished adults, new report says, By Marjorie Cortez, September 30, 2014, Deseret News: “Utah’s effort to end intergenerational poverty will start with 80 families. Next Generation Kids, a pilot program led by the Utah Department of Workforce Services, is underway in Ogden. State officials also plan to work with children and their families in Kearns and Salt Lake City’s Glendale neighborhood. That’s the result of more than three years of intensive study about intergenerational poverty in Utah that reveals one-third of children in the state are at risk of becoming impoverished adults…”
Month: September 2014
Medicaid Enrollment and Access to Care
For many new Medicaid enrollees, care is hard to find, report says, By Robert Pear, September 27, 2014, New York Times: “Enrollment in Medicaid is surging as a result of the Affordable Care Act, but the Obama administration and state officials have done little to ensure that new beneficiaries have access to doctors after they get their Medicaid cards, federal investigators say in a new report. The report, to be issued this week by the inspector general at the Department of Health and Human Services, says state standards for access to care vary widely and are rarely enforced. As a result, it says, Medicaid patients often find that they must wait for months or travel long distances to see a doctor…”
Medicaid Expansion for Children – Texas, Florida
Texas and Florida did expand Medicaid — for kids, By Phil Galewitz, September 29, 2014, USA Today: “Republican lawmakers in Florida and Texas snubbed the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion for adults, but their states did broaden the program this year — for school-age children. Those states were among 21 — including some big Democrat-led states, such as California — that were required to widen Medicaid eligibility for children between the ages of 6 and 18 by 2014. That little-known provision of the health law was one factor helping 1.5 million kids gain coverage in the state-federal health insurance program for the poor, according to a survey of a dozen states by Kaiser Health News…”