Maintain eligibility of Medicaid services for
children and families
Medicaid is the largest source of funding for medical and health-related
services for low-income people in the United States. It is a federal-state
partnership in which each state establishes its own eligibility standards
and determines who is eligible as well as the type, amount, length,
and range of services; sets the rate for payment for services; and manages
its own program.
The Children's Alliance of NH believes that for children to
reach their full potential, they must have access to quality, affordable
physical, oral and mental health care. As the nation's safety net health
insurance programs, Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance
Program (SCHIP) must be funded and administered at levels that allow
for coverage for all families of limited income.
July 11, 2005
American Academy of Pediatrics offers
40 ways to strengthen
Medicaid for children.
June 6, 2005
Guest commentary: Jonathan Baird
calls New Hampshire's Medicaid plan a "budget boomerang"
January 5, 2005
State releases financial
projections and assumptions behind its GraniteCare Medicaid proposal
(click on Financial Projections link in right margin to download PDF).
January 3, 2005
Children's Alliance
urges Commissioner Stephen to abandon Health Services Accounts and to
increase support for Healthy Kids.
December 29, 2004
Concord Monitor article, "Stephen's
Medicaid plan needs new backers," and editorial, "Stephen's
rush: Health commissioner should delay his Medicaid reforms"
indicate slipping support for GraniteCare.
December 6, 2004
"Medicaid
Modernization: Seeking Answers": Douglas Hall, co-Executive
Director of NH Center for Public
Policy Studies, files a Right to Know request under state law for
the data underlying the GraniteCare proposal. You'll also find several
issue briefs
related to Medicaid services and funding in New Hampshire.
December 2, 2004
Federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) officials
send feedback on GraniteCare
proposal (PDF)
November 30, 2004
Children's Alliance urges
advocates to attend public forums Dec 6, 7, and 9 and oppose GraniteCare
Medicaid proposal.
November 23, 2004
Dept.
of Health and Human Services announces three public forums on GraniteCare
proposal Dec. 6-9
November 23, 2004
Fiscal Committee votes to allow DHHS Commissioner to continue discussions
of GraniteCare Medicaid reform (read Concord
Monitor coverage)
November 19, 2004
Children's Alliance, state partners, request
that
Fiscal Committee put off vote on GraniteCare
November 10, 2004
DHHS Commissioner John Stephen releases details of GraniteCare Medicaid
modernization plan to Joint Fiscal Committee. Links to the full
72-page recommendations (PDF) and the commissioner's PowerPoint
slide presentation are posted on the DHHS
Web site.
October 25, 2004
Commentary by Children's Alliance President Ellen Shemitz: Benson
administration's GraniteCare proposal for Medicaid looks to families
like Rock and a Hard Place.
October 20-21, 2004
Concord Monitor leaks details of state's Medicaid plan:
"Medicaid
overhaul outlined" (Oct. 20); "Stephen:
Plan not finished" (Oct. 21); "Among
the Medicaid report's proposals" (Oct. 21)
September 9, 2004
New Endowment for Health study raises
concerns about Medicaid restructuring
July 24, 2004
Jonathan Baird says NH's Medicaid
"modernization" is smoke and mirrors.
June 4, 2004
Children's Alliance opposes
rules changes that could decimate NH Healthy Kids Corp.
