Medicaid and CHIP: Enrollment, Benefits, Expenditures, and Other Characteristics of State Premium Assistance Programs
January 19, 2010 The United States Government Accountability Office writes in this report that fiscal pressures, rising health care costs, and increases in the number of uninsured may lead states to look toward public-private partnerships to help finance health insurance coverage. Through Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), states have had long-standing authority to operate premium assistance programs that subsidize the purchase of private health insurance. The Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 (CHIPRA) provided states with additional options for operating premium assistance programs. As of November 2009, states had not . . .
