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Health Affairs, 26, no. 2 (2007): 394-404
doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.26.2.394
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Insurance Design

Universal Coverage For Children: Alternatives, Key Issues, And Political Opportunities

Stephen Berman

This paper describes four alternatives for expanding childhood insurance coverage, discusses key health policy issues, and assesses the political possibilities for enacting universal coverage. Alternatives are (1) a single federal child health program for all children; (2) a hybrid federal child health program (replacing Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program [SCHIP]), combined with employer coverage; (3) a new federal wraparound program for the uninsured (that keeps the existing Medicaid program); and (4) expansion of SCHIP. Key policy issues include the type of universal coverage, use of competing commercial health plans, financing, employer and individual mandates, and the definition of benefits.


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