Medicaid and Children's Health

  Expansions

• New York
  Health coverage for kids touted as wise investment (Newsday, April 17, 2008)
  
  
• Louisiana
  Health-care revamp faces Senate skepticism: Voucher plan costly, lacks reach, foes say (The Times-Picayune, April 10, 2008)
  
  
• Maryland
  State aims to help children without insurance: Letters to notify families who might be eligible for federal program (Baltimore Sun, April 16, 2008)

  Cuts

• California
  Report critical of Schwarzenegger’s plan on Medi-Cal re-enrollment (Sacramento Bee, April 17, 2008
  Stability and Churning in Medi-Cal and Healthy Families (The California Endowment, March 2008)
  
  
• Florida
  Low-Income Health Care Programs Reprieved (The Tampa Tribune, April 24, 2008)
  Tobacco fund tapped for social services (Miami Herald, April 23, 2008)
  
  
• Oregon
  Oregon Health Plan cutbacks sent more to ER (Portland Business Journal, April 15, 2008)
  Impact of Medicaid Cutbacks on Emergency Department Use: The Oregon Experience (American College of Emergency Physicians, 2008)
  
  
• West Virginia
  Medicaid fails mentally ill, group says: Changes force more people into mental hospitals, jails (The Charleston Gazette, April 16, 2008)

  Other Developments

• Florida
  House pushes Medicaid experiment for nine additional counties (Miami Herald, April 9, 2008)
  Higher copays, fewer services, more fraud. Our opinion: First assure Medicaid reform is an improvement (Miami Herald, April 14, 2008) 
  
  
• Maryland
  Dental-Care Access Expands: To Help Poor Children, Md. Increases Medicaid Rates Paid (Washington Post, April 20, 2008)
  
  
• Mississippi
  Senate Blocks Attempt To Drop Medicaid Face-To-Face Rule For Eligibility (WLOX ABC 13, April 14, 2008)
  

Private Market

• California
  Anthem Blue Cross sued over rescissions (Los Angeles Times, April 17, 2008)
  26 to get back health coverage taken away (San Francisco Chronicle, April 18, 2008)
  
  
• Georgia
  Our Opinion: Legislation won't benefit patients (Atlanta Journal Constitution Editorial, April 14, 2008)
  
  
• Colorado
  The FAIR Act will keep health insurance premiums in check (Denver Post, April 16, 2008)
  

Racial and Ethnic Disparities  

• Georgia
  Limited medical access hurts Georgia minorities (Atlanta Journal-Constitution, April 19, 2008)
  
  
• Massachusetts
  Funding sought for state health equity office (Daily News Tribune, April 22, 2008)

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