Improving the Lives of Young Children: Increasing Referrals and Follow-Up Treatment in Medicaid and CHIP

Outlines factors limiting referrals and treatment for children in public insurance programs, including low reimbursement rates and complex billing rules and fragmentation between primary care and treatment providers. Recommends state policy options

Improving the Lives of Young Children: The Role of Developmental Screenings in Medicaid and CHIP

Outlines barriers to early identification of health, developmental, or behavioral problems. Recommends policies to increase Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program enrollment, Well-Child Visits and screenings, and use of data to improve policies

How Will the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 Affect Children?

Summarizes how reform provisions including the mandate, expanded Medicaid coverage, and changes to parents' coverage will affect children in families of different income levels. Explores possible limitations for Children's Health Insurance Programs

Setting Income Thresholds in Medicaid/SCHIP: Which Children Should Be Eligible?

Outlines the debate over raising income limits for eligibility in Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance Programs. Examines how employer-sponsored insurance costs have outpaced income growth and considers the implications for the uninsured rate

The Health Status of New Medicaid Enrollees Under Health Reform

Examines the demographic and health data of those newly eligible for Medicaid coverage, whether younger and healthier or older and less healthy than current enrollees, and how they will affect costs depending on participation rates

Prospects for Reducing Uninsured Rates Among Children: How Much Can Premium Assistance Programs Help?

Examines the efficacy of premium assistance under Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance Programs in extending coverage for children through a parent's employer-sponsored insurance. Considers policy implications for expanding public insurance

How Will the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 Affect Young Adults?

Summarizes how healthcare reform provisions including the expansion of dependent coverage, subsidies for insurance premiums, and penalties for opting out of coverage will affect young adults ages 19-29 by income level and gender

Medicaid Policy Changes in Kentucky Under the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005: Implementation Issues and Remaining Challenges

Describes the implementation and impact of 2006 reforms, including targeted benefit packages, increased cost sharing, soft service limits, rewarding healthy behaviors, premium assistance, and disease management. Outlines contributing factors and barriers

The Nature of the Peculiar Virgo Cluster Galaxies NGC 4064 and NGC 4424

We present a detailed study of the peculiar HI-deficient Virgo cluster spiral galaxies NGC 4064 and NGC 4424, using $^{12}$CO 1-0 interferometry, optical imaging and integral-field spectroscopic observations, in order to learn what type of environmental interactions have afected these galaxies. Optical imaging reveals that NGC 4424 has a strongly disturbed stellar disk, with banana-shaped isophotes and shells. NGC 4064, which lies in the cluster outskirts, possesses a relatively undisturbed outer stellar disk and a central bar. In both galaxies H-alpha emission is confined to the central kiloparsec. CO observations reveal bilobal molecular gas morphologies, with H-alpha emission peaking inside the CO lobes, implying a time sequence in the star formation process.Gas kinematics reveals strong bar-like non-circular motions in the molecular gas in both galaxies, suggesting that the material is radially infalling. In NGC 4064 the stellar kinematics reveal strong bar-like non-circular motions in the central 1 kpc. On the other hand, NGC 4424 has extremely modest stellar rotation velocities (Vmax ~ 30 km s-1), and stars are supported by random motions as far out as we can measure it. The observations suggest that the peculiarities of NGC 4424 are the result of an intermediate-mass merger plus ram pressure stripping. In the case of NGC 4064, the evidence suggests an already stripped "truncated/normal" galaxy that recently suffered a minor merger or tidal interaction with another galaxy. We propose that galaxies with "truncated/compact" H-alpha morphologies such as these are the result of the independent effects of ram pressure stripping, which removes gas from the outer disk, and gravitational interactions such as mergers, which heat stellar disks, drive gas to the central kpc and increase the central mass concentrations.Comment: 42 pages, 21 figure

Alien Registration- Kenney, Thomas E. (Bangor, Penobscot County)

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