Session: Medicaid And The State Child Health Insurance Program: State And Federal Budgetary Pressures On The Uninsured

3337.0: Monday, November 8, 2004: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM

Oral

Medicaid And The State Child Health Insurance Program: State And Federal Budgetary Pressures On The Uninsured

With increasing competition for federal budget dollars, the escalating federal budget deficit and efforts by current Administration to streamline and reduce the size of federal commitments to the low-income uninsured, state Medicaid and S-CHIP programs have in the last year undergone reductions in funding, benefits and beneficiaries. Some states in response to budget deficits have simply reduced programs and others have considered substantial reforms. This session will review and update efforts at the federal level to reduce and transform federal commitments to states for the uninsured and provide some lessons learned from key states attempting to grapple with these federal and state-based pressures.

Learning Objectives: Better understand the impact of ongoing and proposed reductions on Medicaid and the SCHIP programs at the federal and state levels

Organizer(s):

Gilbert M. Ojeda

Moderator(s):

Richard N. Gottfried, Chair

4:30 PM

A Federal Overview of the Medicaid and S-CHIP Programs

Gilbert M. Ojeda

4:50 PM

Efforts in New York State to Protect Coverage for Low-Income Populations

Richard N. Gottfried, Chair

5:10 PM

Efforts to Dramatically Reform the Nation’s Largest and Most Complex Medicaid Program
Michael Dimmitt

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by:

Health Equity and Public Hospitals Caucus

CE Credits:

Health Education (CHES), Nursing

The 132nd Annual Meeting (November 6-10, 2004) of APHA