The Impact of Welfare Reform on Health Insurance Coverage in Rural Areas
Author : Timothy D. McBride
Publisher :
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 18,57 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Means tests
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Author : Timothy D. McBride
Publisher :
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 18,57 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Means tests
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Author : Karen Seccombe
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 32,27 MB
Release : 2007-08-20
Category : Medical
ISBN : 081354145X
The ability to obtain health care is fundamental to the security, stability, and well-being of poor families. Government-sponsored programs provide temporary support, but as families leave welfare for work, they find themselves without access to coverage or care. The low-wage jobs that individuals in transition are typically able to secure provide few benefits yet often disqualify employees from receiving federal aid. Drawing upon statistical data and in-depth interviews with over five hundred families in Oregon, Karen Seccombe and Kim Hoffman assess the ways in which welfare reform affects the well-being of adults and children who leave the program for work. We hear of asthmatic children whose uninsured but working mothers cannot obtain the preventive medicines to keep them well, and stories of pregnant women receiving little or no prenatal care who end up in emergency rooms with life-threatening conditions. Representative of poor communities nationwide, the vivid stories recounted here illuminate the critical relationship between health insurance coverage and the ability to transition from welfare to work.
Author : Paul Milbourne
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 35,67 MB
Release : 2010-03-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1849509182
Intends to significantly extend previous research work on the rural impacts of national welfare reform and position it in a broader context. This title provides a comprehensive and comparative account of the rural dimensions of welfare in a number of developed countries.
Author : Bruce A. Weber
Publisher : W.E. Upjohn Institute
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 10,29 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Public welfare
ISBN : 0880992409
This volume presents the first comprehensive look at how welfare reforms enacted in 1996 are affecting caseloads, employment, earnings, and family well-being in rural areas.
Author : Robert Kaestner
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Page : 30 pages
File Size : 21,80 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Health insurance
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We study whether welfare reform adversely affected the health insurance coverage of low-educated single mothers and their children. Specifically, we investigate whether changes in the welfare caseload during the 1990s were associated with changes in Medicaid participation, private insurance coverage, and the number of uninsured among single mothers and their children. Estimates suggest that between 1996 and 1999, the 42 percent decrease in the welfare caseload was associated with the following changes in insurance coverage among low-educated, single mothers: a seven to nine percent decrease in Medicaid coverage; an increase in employer-sponsored, private insurance coverage of six percent; and a two to nine percent increase in the proportion uninsured. Among children of low-educated, single mothers, effects were somewhat smaller. Since welfare policy was responsible for only part (e.g., one-third) of the decline in the caseload, welfare reform per se had significantly smaller effects on the health insurance status of low-income families. However, we found limited evidence that changes in the caseload due to state and federal welfare policy had fewer adverse consequences on insurance status than changes in the caseload due to other factors. This implies even smaller effects of welfare reform
Author : Fred K. Hines
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Page : 36 pages
File Size : 38,29 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Public welfare
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Author : United States. Government Accountability Office
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Page : 74 pages
File Size : 16,23 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Public welfare
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Page : 64 pages
File Size : 23,44 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Health insurance
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Author : James P. Ziliak
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 22,57 MB
Release : 2009-08-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521764254
Leading poverty experts address the longer-term effects of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act.
Author : Isabel V. Sawhill
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 43,75 MB
Release : 2004-05-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0815798822
The Brookings Institution's Welfare Reform & Beyond Initiative was created to inform the critical policy debates surrounding the upcoming congressional reauthorization of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program and a number of related programs that were created or dramatically altered by the 1996 landmark welfare reform legislation. The goal of the project has been to take the large volume of existing and forthcoming research studies and shape them into a more coherent and policy-oriented whole. This capstone collection gathers twenty brief essays (published between January 2001 and February 2002) that focus on assessing the record of welfare reform, specific issues likely to be debated before the TANF reauthorization, and a broader set of policy options for low-income families. It is a reader-friendly volume that will provide policymakers, the press, and the interested public with a comprehensive guide to the numerous issues that must be addressed as Congress considers the future of the nation's antipoverty policies. The collection covers the following topics and features a new introduction from the editors: - An Overview of Effects to Date - Welfare Reform Reauthorization: An Overview of Problems and Issues - A Tax Proposal for Working Families with Children - Welfare Reform and Poverty - Reducing Non-Marital Births - Which Welfare Reforms are Best for Children? - Welfare and the Economy - What Can Be Done to Reduce Teen Pregnancy and Out-of-Wedlock Births? - Changing Welfare Offices - State Programs - Welfare Reform and Employment - Fragile Families, Welfare Reform, and Marriage - Health Insurance, Welfare, and Work - Helping the Hard-to-Employ - Sanctions and Welfare Reform - Child Care and Welfare Reform - Job Retention and Advancement in Welfare Reform - Housing and Welfare Reform - Non-Citizens - Block Grant Structure - Food Stamps - Work Support System - Possible Welfare Re