Rep. Lujan Introduces Bill to Help States Enroll More Kids in Health Insurance
Congressman
Lujan noted that Medicaid and CHIP provide no-cost or low-cost health coverage for eligible children in
"Children's health insurance coverage has reached historic levels in
Lujan said his bill was introduced, in part, to ensure that the recent increases in providing insurance coverage for children continues, and that resources to identify and enroll these children in health coverage are made available to the states. In addition, the bill would create provide resources to allow parent mentors to participate in the program. Under the terms of the bill, parent mentors are defined as experienced, minority mothers and fathers (with at least one Medicaid- or CHIP-covered child) who have received training, then assisted minority families in their own communities for one year with insurance applications, retaining coverage, medical homes, and social determinants of health, such as food insufficiency and housing issues.
"If we cut Medicaid and other parts of the social safety net, as the President and others have proposed, kids are going to lose, and all the gains we have made in providing insurance for the youngest members of society will be swept away," said Lujan. "We must not let that happen."
Specifically, this legislation would:
* Authorize
* Allow trained parent mentors to be eligible for such grants
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