Latest Reports in Health Policy

• "SCHIP, Medicaid Expansions Lead To Shifts in Health Coverage," Center for Studying Health System Change: Expansions of states' Medicaid and CHIP programs and increased outreach efforts led to a drop from 20.1% in 1997 to 16.1% in 2001 in the proportion of low-income children who are uninsured, HSC senior researchers Peter Cunningham and James Reschovsky and Jack Hadley, an HSC senior fellow and Urban Institute principal research associate, write in an HSC issue brief. Based on the group's Community Tracking Study Household Survey, the researchers found that between 1997 and 2001, the percentage of low-income children in Medicaid or CHIP increased from 28.4% to 36%. Over the same time period, the percentage of low-income children in private health plans dropped from 47% to 42.3%, providing some evidence of crowd out, the brief says (HSC release, 12/19).