title: Incremental approaches to covering uninsured children: design and policy issues.
abstract: More than 10.5 million children were uninsured throughout 1995. The number of uninsured children remains high, even in the face of continued expansions of Medicaid designed to cover low-income children. As a result, interest persists in developing additional approaches for covering uninsured children. Efforts to attract more uninsured children will entail important trade-offs between the federal costs of the program (and its political viability) and the number of uninsured children who enroll.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Health Services Research, Tulane University's School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, USA.
authors.forename: K E
authors.initials: KE
authors.lastname: Thorpe
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002662:Child Health Services / Q000191:economics*; D002669:Child Welfare / Q000191:economics; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003363:Cost Control / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D005260:Female; D005380:Financing, Government / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006291:Health Policy / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D019458:Insurance Coverage / Q000191:economics*; D008297:Male; D008484:Medicaid / Q000191:economics; D008489:Medical Indigency / Q000191:economics*; D017057:Medically Uninsured / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014481:United States