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Direct linkAriana M. Mastrogiannis; Caren Steinway; Telmo C. Santos; Jack Chen; John Berens; Thomas Davis; Michelle Cornacchia; Jason Woodward; Ilka Riddle; Brittany Spicer; Charmaine Wright; Lee A. Lindquist; Sophia Jan – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2024
Background: Long-term care services are funded primarily by Medicaid long-term services and support in the United States, where eligibility is based on care needs of the individual with intellectual and developmental disability alone. Impact of Medicaid waiver services on self-reported caregiver needs is not well understood. Method: Caregivers (n…
Descriptors: Caregivers, Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities, Needs
McBain, Ryan K.; Cantor, Jonathan H.; Kofner, Aaron; Stein, Bradley D.; Yu, Hao – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2022
Over 700,000 children throughout the U.S. have received insurance coverage through welcome mat effects of Medicaid expansion, including children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Utilizing health workforce data from the Health Resources and Services Administration, we examined workforce growth (2008-2017) among three types of health providers…
Descriptors: Health Services, Federal Programs, State Federal Aid, Low Income Groups
Download full textFirst Focus on Children, 2025
The House has passed a budget reconciliation bill that supporters are referring to as a "one big, beautiful bill." However, the authors of this Issue Brief believe that this budget bill threatens the health and nutrition of millions of children and pushes millions of children into poverty in order to provide tax credits for corporations,…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Budgets, Children, Child Health
Singer, Phillip M.; McNaughtan, Jon; Eicke, Dustin – Higher Education Policy, 2021
The 2010 health reform bill, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, included a provision that would expand eligibility of the public insurance program Medicaid. One concern raised about implementing the Medicaid expansion is that it would lead to reductions in state spending in other policy domains. In this study, we test whether adopting…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Health Insurance, Health Services, Federal Programs
McLean, Kiley J.; Hoekstra, Allison M.; Bishop, Lauren – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2021
Emerging research tests the impact of United States Medicaid home and community-based (HCBS) waiver policy on outcomes for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities; however, this body of work has yet to be synthesized. We conducted a scoping review to establish what is known about the impact of Medicaid HCBS policy on the lives of…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Health Services, Community Services, Intellectual Disability
Melodie Baker; Brian D. Backstrom – Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, 2023
This "Building Capacity for Change" "playbook" highlights practices and strategies that proved to be effective in supporting the rollout and implementation of certain programs under the New York State Department of Health's First 1,000 Days on Medicaid Initiative, a series of evidence-based reforms aimed at improving health and…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Parents, Health Insurance
Degeneffe, Charles Edmund – Rehabilitation Research, Policy, and Education, 2022
Purpose: The present article provides a narrative review of Australia's approach toward acquired brain injury (ABI) and proposes how Australia and the United States can collaborate to improve service delivery for persons with ABI and their families with epidemiology, healthcare, prevention, research, and training. Method: A narrative review of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Head Injuries, Brain, International Cooperation
Scott, Andrew P.; Jones, Katie; Smole, David P.; Labonte, Marc; Aussenberg, Randy Alison; Lewis, Kevin M.; Billings, Kara Clifford; Lindsay, Bruce R.; Boyle, Conor F.; Lowry, Sean; Colello, Kirsten J.; Lynch, Karen E.; Crandall-Hollick, Margot L.; Marples, Donald J.; Davis, Patricia A.; McCarty, Maggie; Dilger, Robert Jay; Mitchell, Alison; Dortch, Cassandria; Myers, Elizabeth A.; Driessen, Grant A.; Perkins, David W.; Fernandes-Alcantara, Adrienne L.; Perl, Libby; Fernandez, Bernadette; Peterman, David Randall; Forsberg, Vanessa C.; Rosso, Ryan J.; Fountain, Joselynn H.; Sherlock, Molly F.; Gravell, Jane G.; Skinner, Rebecca R.; Hahn, Jim; Stoltzfus, Emilie; Halchin, L. Elaine; Tang, Rachel Y.; Hegji, Alexandra; Topoleski, John J.; Isaacs, Katelin P.; Whittaker, Julie M. – Congressional Research Service, 2021
Since March 2020, a number of laws have been enacted to provide relief to people and businesses affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. These include the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA; P.L. 116-127) and the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act; P.L. 116-136), both enacted in March 2020; the Consolidated…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Federal Legislation, Federal Aid, Pandemics
Duke-Benfield, Amy Ellen – Postsecondary Value Commission, 2021
Many college students, especially students from low-income backgrounds, face significant structural barriers that make it challenging to persist and complete a degree or certificate. These barriers include substantial financial challenges. Student financial aid at the federal and state levels has not kept up with rising college costs, resulting in…
Descriptors: Low Income Students, Quality of Life, Barriers, Student Financial Aid
Schultz, Celeste; Thorlton, Janet – Journal of School Nursing, 2019
Consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables helps to reduce childhood obesity and improves academic achievement and attendance. However, providing fresh fruits and vegetables is challenging for some schools due to cost, administrative burden, and concern for food waste. To address these challenges, the Fruit and Vegetable Access for Children Act…
Descriptors: Food, Educational Environment, Academic Achievement, Attendance
Cohodes, Sarah; Kleiner, Samuel; Lovenheim, Michael F.; Grossman, Daniel – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2014
Public health insurance programs comprise a large share of federal and state government expenditure, and these programs are due to be expanded as part of the 2010 Affordable Care Act. Despite a large literature on the effects of these programs on health care utilization and health outcomes, little prior work has examined the long-term effects of…
Descriptors: Health Insurance, Child Health, Access to Education, Federal Legislation
Pudelski, Sasha – AASA, The School Superintendent's Association, 2017
Meeting the health and wellness needs of students in school is a necessary and effective approach to reducing educational barriers for children and ensuring America's economic dominance in the 21st century. Since 1988, Medicaid has permitted payment to schools for certain medically necessary services provided to children under the Individuals with…
Descriptors: Health Insurance, Public Policy, Wellness, Student Needs
Szilagyi, Peter G. – Future of Children, 2012
Few people would disagree that children with disabilities need adequate health insurance. But what kind of health insurance coverage would be optimal for these children? Peter Szilagyi surveys the current state of insurance coverage for children with special health care needs and examines critical aspects of coverage with an eye to helping policy…
Descriptors: Health Needs, Health Insurance, Child Health, Access to Health Care
Duggan, Mark; Hayford, Tamara – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2013
From 1991 to 2009, the fraction of Medicaid recipients enrolled in HMOs and other forms of Medicaid managed care (MMC) increased from 11 percent to 71 percent. This increase was largely driven by state and local mandates that required most Medicaid recipients to enroll in an MMC plan. Theoretically, it is ambiguous whether the shift from…
Descriptors: Legislation, Local Government, State Legislation, Tables (Data)
Minoux, Ankeny – Exceptional Parent, 2010
After the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, thousands of families across the U.S. breathed a sigh of relief at the White House's reassurance: "Reform will eliminate health insurance discrimination against people with disabilities." However, the actual language of the law and the proposed implementation timeline of the…
Descriptors: Health Insurance, Disabilities, Special Needs Students, Health Services
