State Children's Health Insurance Program

(2005). Influencing Health Care Policy with Our Children In Mind. Medsurg Nursing, 14(5), 277-278. Gridel (2005) focuses on the differences in coverage of children with private versus public health insurance and those children who do not have coverage or gaps in their coverage and how it affects their overall health. Full year coverage is the key for high access to care but public health coverage does better overall then private coverage. Children with breaks in coverage or no coverage tend to have more limited access. These children are not seen for well-visits, get their medications or are even seen in the first place. These insurance gaps show a lack of health care promotion for children (Gridel, 2005). Gridel (2005) points…

Adequate health insurance coverage is important for everyone and especially for children. Children who have a health insurance cover are found to have good health in their entire childhood and in their adolescence and adulthood. Such children are more likely to get the preventive care that keeps them from getting sick, and they can easily receive treatment that they require in their future (Baicker et al. 107). On the other hand, children who are uninsured are more likely to have unmet medical…

the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) of 1997. We will discuss problems in how legislation has tried to solve them and how CHIP started. In 1997, the federal government created the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), a program that partners with Medicaid. SCHIP insures children in families with incomes “at or below 200% of the federal poverty level”. States legislating a SCHIP program receive generous federal matching funds and can administer SCHIP through Medicaid. In…

The Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) provides health coverage to eligible children, through both Medicaid and separate CHIP programs. CHIP is administered by states, according to federal requirements. The program is funded jointly by states and the federal government (Medicaid, 2015). Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) provides health coverage to more than 43 million children, including half of all low-income children in the United States. The federal government sets…

beyond 5,000 depending on the goods and services you require. Insurance companies help to protect you from these expenses. It is important, as Pharmacists, to discuss the different types of insurance and understand how they work, who funds them, eligibility for the insurance, and what makes them different. For our purposes, we will discuss Medicare, Medicaid, State Children’s…

access to healthcare for different demographics. For example, many of those differences are based on age, occupation status, pre-existing conditions, military statuses, income, and an individual’s health status or any health issues that they are faced with. Some healthcare is even determined on the types of medication that an individual or groups of individuals may need on a month to month basis. All of these factors play a role and determine the type of healthcare that an individual may have or…

the leading association for United States hospitals. For the first eight years, the AHA served as a private club only for hospital superintendents with the goal of interchanging ideas, discussing the hospital economy, and other factors. It was not until 1917 that the association…

hospital or surgical coverage, but dental benefits are becoming a major negotiating issue. The cost of these dental benefits will be significant and will be a prime expense to American health industry (Bailit, Raskin, & Chiriboga, 1979, p. 699). First, almost all people have some treatable form of dental diseases. Several interrelated features of dentistry and dental insurance contribute to increasing the money spent for dental care. Dental insurance is not a real insurance like life insurance…

Documentary films are aimed at explaining or highlighting aspects that are essential for humans. Film Sicko raises the issue of health care and health insurance in the USA. In addition, the film showed that there are insured Americans suffering from health care service in contrast to other countries (Documentary Storm, 2011). Insurance coverage does not guarantee one’s well-being and health. As it was shown in the film, health insurance companies are trying to maximize their own profits. For…

The United States - The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 established “shared responsibility” between the government, employers, and individuals for ensuring that all Americans have access to affordable and quality health insurance. However, health insurance coverage remains fragmented, with numerous private and public sources as well as wide gaps in coverage rates across the U.S. population. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) administers the Medicare…