Child healthcare has always been a critical part of the U.S. government and is currently a controversial issue that has been recently brought up in government discussions. “ Today 95% of kids in the U.S. have health insurance coverage, a historic high” The 95% of kids that receive health insurance receive it from various programs created and funded by the government. Despite these various programs, the most controversial of them all is the Children's Health Insurance Program. This program has recently experienced difficulties with funding and coverage for the 9 million children and 370,000 pregnant women that are insured with them. The issue of insufficient funding of CHIP will lead to many kids being uninsured, not getting proper treatment, …show more content…
States have already made plans for what to do in case federal funds are decreasing. Depending on how their CHIP programs are set up, these states plan to end or reduce coverage, put limitations on enrollment, or transition children to Medicaid, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. Five states including Colorado, Connecticut, Texas, Utah, and Virginia have already said that they could terminate their programs. Some states are already figuring out ways to continue people’s health insurance such as transitions to medicaid. The budget shortfalls that could occur will cause coverage to end and funding would help by decreasing them as a result, there would be enough money to cover the insurance. Increased funding would decrease the difference between the charges for treatment and the money that the insurance company is able to cover. Analysis: Not increasing funding for children's healthcare would cause states to experience negative impacts on their economy and children would be affected in that children won't get the treatment they need. Body III.) If the government does not increase funding for children's healthcare, this will increase the rate of uninsured children in the
One of the most controversial topics in the United States in recent years has been the route which should be undertaken in overhauling the healthcare system for the millions of Americans who are currently uninsured. It is important to note that the goal of the Affordable Care Act is to make healthcare affordable; it provides low-cost, government-subsidized insurance options through the State Health Insurance Marketplace (Amadeo 1). Our current president, Barack Obama, made it one of his goals to bring healthcare to all Americans through the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. This plan, which has been termed “Obamacare”, has come under scrutiny from many Americans, but has also received a large amount of support in turn for a variety of reasons. Some of these reasons include a decrease in insurance discrimination on the basis of health or gender and affordable healthcare coverage for the millions of uninsured. The opposition to this act has cited increased costs and debt accumulation, a reduction in employer healthcare coverage options, as well as a penalization of those already using private healthcare insurance.
Healthcare has been a topic of discussion with the majority of the country. Issues with insurance coverage, rising costs, limited options to gain coverage, and the quality of healthcare have become concerns for law makers, healthcare providers and the general public. Some of those concerns were alleviated with the passing of the Affordable Care Act, but new concerns have developed with problems that have occurred in the implementation of the new law. The main concerns of the country are if the Affordable Care Act will be able to overcome the issues that plagued the old healthcare system, the cost of the program, and how will the new law affect the quality of the health delivery system.
This in turn means that 17 percent of the total United States population are Hispanics. They are a diverse ethnic group and as the years go on the population of Hispanics keeps growing; they are the fastest growing and by 2050 Hispanics will make up 30 percent of the United States’ population. They’re the highest number of uninsured among the racial/ethnic groups. Statistics show that one out of three Hispanics lack medical insurance coverage. There are more Hispanic children than there are Hispanic adults over the age of 65 and one in four of the total amount of Hispanics are non-citizens. They all continue to face troubles in health coverage and care. Hispanics are more likely to work in low-income positions as well as being more likely to work in agriculture and construction jobs. Most of these jobs do not offer health care coverage, and when they do, Hispanics cannot accept it due to their already low incomes. When it comes to Medicaid, they cover over half of Hispanic children and since more than half of all Hispanics are already said to be in low-income families, this means that they will be able to receive Medicaid just like their children are. The fathers and husbands of Hispanic families are more likely to stop their children from going to the doctor until the very last minute and are more likely themselves to not do anything until they get so sick they must go to the
Health care costs affect family finances in two major ways: out-of-pocket spending, such as co-pays, deductibles, and prescriptions, and the family’s share of the health insurance premium. The United States health care spending growth continues to annually increase in expenditures that have stabilized at less than 4% per year. Rising cost-sharing is largely at...
The author also believes that the Medicaid expansion extends beyond the politics, and has an aim to impact the life, health, and financial stability for the state and individuals. Medicaid expansion can be beneficial to many countries that have a large proportion of low-income people that are uninsured and or with disabilities. This can aid in saving the state money because much of the cost is provided and covered by the federal government, that encourages healthier behavior and results to a reduction in chronic disease due to lower health care costs. Although Texas opted out in adopting the expansion, legislators should decide on the advantage and disadvantage of participating in the Medicaid expansion to improve the welfare of the state. The expansion of Medicaid coverage will give low-income pregnant women the chance to reduce the rate in infant mortality and provide an opportunity for those that were unable to get coverage to be
Single moms are the most affected and providing childcare on campus is very beneficial to them. More than 4 million women attend two-year public institutions or community colleges, and more than 1 million of them are mothers. Many student mothers struggle to stay enrolled all the way through graduation. Most of them are more likely to drop out of school, and the reason is because most often there is no affordable or available childcare and the students have limited financial resources. The average daycare center cost for an infant is higher than a year’s tuition and fees at a public college. It makes affordable on-campus child care a necessary provision for students. Childcare on campus helps to contribute to the learning
...while bearing a portion of the costs, and the states’ ability to manipulate the program to obtain federal funds (Weil, 2003). The overwhelming increase in Medicaid costs are born by the states individually and reflect actual costs associated with growing eligible population that requires the services offered by Medicaid.
First, when it comes to paying child support, some men are lazy and try to find reasons or excuses to get out of paying what they owe. Child support is a payment that a noncustodial parent makes as a contribution to the costs of raising a child. Failure to receive such payment has a great impact on the well-being of the child. The U.S. Department of Human Services has reported that since 1975, the total child support arrears have accumulated to more than $114.5 billion. This result is because the nonresident fathers are not paying their child support payments.
President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on March 23, of 2010 that changed United States healthcare delivery system by making access to healthcare affordable for all Americans. The PPACA requires Americans to have health insurance coverage with the exception to financial hardship, religious objections and American Indians. The health reform will also expand Medicaid and will include the Children’s Health Insurance program (CHIP), also known as (SCHIP) the State Children’s Insurance Program. In 2009, the number of children without insurance was 7.5 million (Estes, Chapman, Dodd, Hollister & Harrington, 2013).The uninsured children varied by factors such as poverty status, age, race, and the Hispanic origin. The uninsured percentages of children by race were the following: 7.0% for white children, 11.5% for black children, 10.0% for Asian children and 16.8 % for Hispanic children. These percentages show that Hispanic children are most likely to be uninsured due to the lack of knowledge about certain programs available that offer health insurance coverage. The problem is that there are still many children that go without insurance coverage due to several barriers such as the lack of access, lack of education and lack of affordable healthcare for All Americans.
Under the Affordable Care Act one of the most important provisions is to expand health care to low income families through Medicaid. This could have an effect on over eight million people who do not have access to health care currently. However 25 states have decided against expanding Medicaid benefits, leaving 13.5 million people less likely to receive basic health care and preventative ...
The rising cost affects businesses, families and individuals. Businesses are finding it difficult to provide health benefits for employees. Uncertainty and insecurity arises in some families and individuals with respect to high premiums and deductibles, high out of pocket expense and expensive prescriptions for those with coverage and the burden of not having coverage for others. This trickles down into other areas of ones livelihood. Due to medical debt, families with health insurance are having difficulty paying for other basic necessities (Doty,
Raising a child can be an extremely stressful time in anybody’s life. It can also be one of the most rewarding times of your life. To make it not nearly as stressful, it’s good to be prepared. Raising a kid from newborn to eighteen years old can cost a lot of money. It’s good to manage your money well and have some saved up.
I didn’t have to think long at all before I thought of a topic that really interests me: the Keep a Child Alive organization co-founded by the amazing singer/songwriter Alicia Keys. I first heard about Keep a Child Alive from the music video for Alicia Keys’ song “Teenage Love Affair”. One of the scenes in the beginning before the song starts is of a college campus rally and shows a student announcing over a megaphone that there is an epidemic in Africa and that if we all work together we can change the world, that he can’t do it alone. There are other students holding signs that say “AIDS + Ignorance = Death” and another sign that says “Keep a Child Alive”. I’ve always been interested in protest culture and people standing up for what’s right and speaking up
Child abuse refers to lack of care or any type of emotional, physical or sexual mistreatment that results in emotional damage or physical injury to a child or a youth. In most countries, children are considered to be anyone below 18 years of age. Child abuse can occur directly by harming a child or indirectly by failing to prevent the child from any form of harm or injury. Child abuse can occur either in the family set up, in the community set up or in an institution such as a school. Also, children can be abused by adults or by other children or by people who know them or people who are complete strangers to them.
The article explains that people may disagree with a lot of thing but we can be sure that people may agree that children can’t struggle with poverty. We can’t end poverty but we can work to end poverty in some child lives. Children didn’t choose to be poor and their parents, country, state , race, color, neighborhood, and faith. There are 35 countries living in poverty and united states is 34thposition on child poverty. People who experience poverty during the children tend to be more likely to experience poverty during the adult life.