Low-income families with children will be harmed by South Carolina's proposed Medicaid work reporting requirement
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Contributor(s):
- South Carolina Appleseed Legal Justice Center, issuing body. Georgetown University. Health Policy Institute. Center for Children and Families, issuing body.
- Publication:
- Washington, DC : Georgetown University Health Policy Institute, Center for Children and Families, January 2019
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Eligibility Determination Employment Insurance Coverage Medicaid Poverty South Carolina United States
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- Key Findings. (1) The new requirement would lead to as many as 5,000 to 14,000 South Carolina parents losing their Medicaid coverage. The policy change would predominantly affect very poor South Carolina mothers. The impact would hit hardest in the state's small towns and rural communities, where families are more likely to be insured through Medicaid and where jobs are harder to find. African American families would also be disproportionately impacted. (2) Even if these parents find new jobs, they may not be able to afford health coverage provided through their employers, if their employer provides health benefits at all. Only 17 percent of South Carolina non-elderly adults living in poverty receive employer-sponsored insurance. Most are likely to remain uninsured if they lose Medicaid. (3) The loss of coverage for parents would affect their children, exacerbating a troubling surge in the number and rate of uninsured children. South Carolina was one of nine states to see a significant increase in the share of children lacking health coverage in 2017.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (5 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101770627 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101770627