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“Corbett challenged over moving kids to Medicaid”

May 31, 2013 article about Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett asking the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to provide his state an exemption that would remove the requirement that Pennsylvania transfer thousands of kids from the state’s Child Health Insurance Program (CHIP) over to Medicaid.

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Children’s Health Insurance Program

The Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) provides health coverage to children in families with incomes too high to qualify for Medicaid but can’t afford private coverage. Their website provides information on CHIP enrollment and design by state as well as enrollment trends.

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“Statement of Robert Greenstein, President, on Census’ 2011 Poverty, Income, and Health Insurance Data”

Sept. 12, 2012, analysis by the Center on Budget and Public Policies which says that the number of uninsured Americans fell in 2011 by the largest margin since 1999, in part due to early implementation of the Affordable Care Act. The analysis foretells of further decreases once the Affordable Care Act is completely implemented in […]

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President’s Council on Bioethics

The President’s Council on Bioethics is a 17-member panel appointed by President Bush in 2001 to replace the former National Bioethics Advisory Council. The new council includes physicians, lawyers, political scientists, a philosopher and a scientist. It advises the president on a range of bioethics questions.

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Jonathan Gruber

Jonathan Gruber is an economics professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston. He advised the Obama campaign in 2008 about health care, and The Washington Post has called him the Democratic Party’s most influential health care expert. He has testified before the Senate Finance Committee about financing health care reform.

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