Compare and contrast Medicaid, Medicare, and the Children’s Health Insurance Program/State Children’s Health Insurance program (CHIP/SCHIP). Describe how these programs are similar and different in terms of structure and financing. Select one of these programs and imagine you are in a position to redesign that program. What key policy issue is most important to address? What primary policy change would you recommend for improvement? Explain and support your position with evidence.
PLEASE:
– minimum of 250 words or more
– strong academic writing / APA style (please use in-text citing and References at end )
– used attached resources or additional ( must be scholarly articles only no older than 5 years ) and reference and in-text cite.
– please be original writing and must answer all parts of question for full credit.
Read “Policy Campaign: One State’s Journey to Influence the Reauthorization of the Children’s Health Insurance Program,” by Williams and Searcy, from Journal of Pediatric Health Care (2016).
Read “Access to Care for Medicare-Medicaid Dually Eligible Beneficiaries: The Role of State Medicaid Payment Policies,” by Zheng, Haber, Hoover, and Feng, from Health Services Research (2017).
In most cases, the federal government contributes half the amount while the states contribute the other half. In contrast, federal funding for CHIP gets done as a block grant, with each state getting a fixed amount of money despite the number of people covered (Williams & Searcy, 2016). Another similarity between Medicaid and CHIP is that they offer health care coverage to children from low-income families (Zheng et al., 2017). Initially, CHIP came about as a legal framework to address the shortcomings of Medicaid, which secluded certain classes of children from its eligibility window. Unlike CHIP programs, Medicaid has to offer specific services to the children covered under the program.
