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CHIP Analysis Update and Summary of Sources of Coverage If CHIP Funding Is Exhausted

Published In

January 2015

Publication Type

Presentations

 

Under current law, states begin exhausting federal CHIP funds this fall–in FY 2016. This presentation provides a preview of the of the key points in MACPAC’s March 2015 Report to Congress on Medicaid and CHIP, including:

  • 1.1 million children would become uninsured in 2016 if CHIP ends.
  • Most of the children who become uninsured would be eligible for employer-sponsored coverage (59.1%) rather than subsidized exchange coverage (40.9%).
  • Among these uninsured children eligible for job-based coverage, out-of-pocket premiums to cover the children would average $5,509 (13.2% of income).