What is crowd-out and why should childrens health advocates care?
Washington (DC): Families USA; 2000. This report can be found at: –>http://www.familiesusa.org/crwdout.htm–>. States setting up separate State SCHIP programs may choose to adopt measures besides just limiting benefits to avoid crowd-out. The authors of this report examine some of these measures, and caution States to be careful in adopting program design features that will restrict eligibility to needy uninsured children until more is known about crowd-out and what to do about it. • Almeida RA, Kenney GM. Gaps in insurance coverage for children: a pre-CHIP baseline. In: New Federalism: National Survey of America’s Families. Washington (DC): The Urban Institute; Mar 2000. This report can be found at: http://newfederalism.urban.org/html/series_b/b19/b19.html. Prior to SCHIP, there was significant variation across States in approaches toward covering children. This report examines data taken on over 34,000 children immediately following the implementation of SCHIP, and breaks down the n
