Changing Welfare
Changing Welfare is concerned with the sweeping changes that took place in public assistance programs at the end of the 20th century and the way in which the original and reformed versions of these programs relate to the well-being of children and their f
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Issues in Children's and Families' Lives
Series Editors:
Thomas P. Gullotta, Child and Family Agency of Southeastern Connecticut,
New London, Connecticut Herbert J. Walberg, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Roger P. Weisberg, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
CHANGING WELFARE Edited by Rachel A. Gordon and Herbert
J. Walberg
PREVENTING YOUTH PROBLEMS Edited by Anthony Biglan, Margaret C. Wang, and Herbert J. Walberg
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Changing Welfare Edited by
Rachel A. Gordon University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago, Illinois
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publicalion Oala Changing welfare/edited by Rachel A. Gordon and Herbert 1. Walberg. p. cm. - (Issues in chiJdren 's and families' lives) Includes bibJiographkal referenceş and index. ISBN 978-1-4613-487()-2 ISBN 978-1-4419-9274-1 (eBook) 00110.1007/978-1-4419-9274-1 1. Child welfare- United State:>. 2. Public welfare- Uniled State:>. 3. Social service- United State:>. 1. Gardon, Rachel A. II. Walberg.. Herbert J., 1937- III. Issues in children's aod. familie:>' lives (K1uwer Academic/Plenum Publishers) HV741.C379 2003 362.82'8- dc21 2003044643
ISBN 978-1-4613-4870-2 102003 Springer SCience+Business Media New York Ori ginall y publishcd by Kluwcr Academic I Plcnulll Publ isht'T"S New York in 2003 Softcover reprinr ofrhe hardcover ISI edition 2003
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Figure 2. Health Insuran ce Coverage: Children, 1984-1 998.
Source: Auth or's tabulations from 1985-1999 March Current Population Surve ys. Note that after 1997, a sma ll amo un t of the coverage labeled "Medicaid " may actually be SCHIP coverage .
found that if all of the increased Medicaid enrollment had come from the uninsured population, inequality in coverage levels could ha ve decreased even further. The possibility that at least some of the increase in Medicaid enrollment came from children who previously had coverage is evident in the health insurance coverage trends graphed in Figure 2. While it is clear that pri vate coverage rates were falling throughout the 1980s, when the expansion s took effect and Medicaid coverage beg an to rise, the loss of pri vate coverage accelerated. One possible explanation for the relationship is that private coverage declined for reasons other than the expansion in public health insurance (the recession that occurred in the early 1990s, for example, or rising health insurance prices) and the expansions of Medicai
