{"id":217,"date":"2010-03-24T17:25:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T17:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubaltlawcfcc.wordpress.com\/2010\/03\/24\/health-care-reform-legislation-what-does-it-mean-for-children-and-families"},"modified":"2010-03-24T17:25:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T17:25:00","slug":"health-care-reform-legislation-what-does-it-mean-for-children-and-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cfcc\/2010\/03\/24\/health-care-reform-legislation-what-does-it-mean-for-children-and-families\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Care Reform Legislation: What Does it Mean for Children and Families?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new health care reform legislation, signed into law by President Obama is sure to be discussed at next Thursday\u2019s Urban Child Symposium; in the meantime, here\u2019s a short overview of the law\u2019s major effects on children and families:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Insurance companies will be prohibited from denying health coverage to children with pre-existing conditions. For example, children suffering from asthma who don\u2019t have insurance coverage will now be able to get coverage.<\/li>\n<li>CHIP (Children\u2019s Health Insurance Program), which provides public\u00a0health care to lower-income children, will be expanded to reach more families (up to 133% of the federal poverty line) and protections will be in place to prevent CHIP reductions in the near future.<\/li>\n<li>Beginning in 2014, people who make up to 400% of the federal poverty line will be eligible for government subsidies for health care they purchase, with the amount based on their income.<\/li>\n<li>The law authorizes new programs for preventive health, including School-Based Health Clinics, oral health education, and substance use disorder and mental health problem prevention.<\/li>\n<li>Co-pays for many preventive services, like immunizations, will be eliminated from most health plans.<br \/>\nMedicaid will cover an annual well-visit, assistance for pregnant women to quit smoking, and other preventive services.<\/li>\n<li>Young adult dependents will be eligible for coverage on their parents\u2019 plan through age 26.<\/li>\n<li>Beginning in 2014, families who currently do not get employer-provided health care coverage will be able to purchase health care at a reasonable price from state-run \u201cexchanges\u201d (insurance marketplaces with built-in consumer protections designed to pool risk and provide affordable individual or small group policies).<\/li>\n<li>Individual, small group, and new Medicaid health plans will be required to include substance use disorder and mental health services in their basic packages and to treat these benefits the same as all others.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We\u2019d like to hear from you&#8211;on this blog and at next week\u2019s conference. Does the law do enough? Does it do too much? Which health problems will the new law address and which are not addressed? What role will the law play in the day-to-day health issues of urban children? How can new funding best be used to tackle the most pressing problems? How should legislators prioritize the different health challenges that exist in urban environments? How can advocates and citizens ensure that legislators prioritize correctly? What else can be done to address urban child health issu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new health care reform legislation, signed into law by President Obama is sure to be discussed at next Thursday\u2019s Urban Child Symposium; in the meantime, here\u2019s a short overview of the law\u2019s major effects on children and families: Insurance companies will be prohibited from denying health coverage to children with pre-existing conditions. For example,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2988,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cfcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cfcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cfcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cfcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2988"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cfcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cfcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cfcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cfcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cfcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}