Policy Options for Serving Migrant Children and Families Under Medicaid and SCHIP
Author: Moore, Judith D.
Date Published: 2000
At the request of several interested parties, the National Health Policy Forum sponsored a meeting on June 14 to bring together a group who could discuss how to better serve children and families of migrant and seasonal farmworkers. The meeting invitation, agenda, participant roster, and list of resources is appended to this paper. 46 participants with broad expertise in health care delivery and financing programs for needy families heard brief presentations describing problems in providing coverage to migrant children and families through Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program. These speakers described issues and concerns from a variety of perspectives, and the group as a whole discussed an assortment of potential approaches to better health coverage for this group through Medicaid and SCHIP. This paper attempts to summarize the June 14 discussion. It attempts to provide a neutral and unbiased view of the policy options discussed for assuring additional coverage and health care services to needy migrant children and families, as discussed at the meeting. After a brief description of the important issues that raise concern, it briefly describes the most salient potential policy options to deal with those issues.
Date Published: 2000
At the request of several interested parties, the National Health Policy Forum sponsored a meeting on June 14 to bring together a group who could discuss how to better serve children and families of migrant and seasonal farmworkers. The meeting invitation, agenda, participant roster, and list of resources is appended to this paper. 46 participants with broad expertise in health care delivery and financing programs for needy families heard brief presentations describing problems in providing coverage to migrant children and families through Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program. These speakers described issues and concerns from a variety of perspectives, and the group as a whole discussed an assortment of potential approaches to better health coverage for this group through Medicaid and SCHIP. This paper attempts to summarize the June 14 discussion. It attempts to provide a neutral and unbiased view of the policy options discussed for assuring additional coverage and health care services to needy migrant children and families, as discussed at the meeting. After a brief description of the important issues that raise concern, it briefly describes the most salient potential policy options to deal with those issues.
