By The Center for Children and Families staff is scurrying as fast as a NASCAR pit crew as two of our top issues are building momentum. We are participating in back-to-back Capitol Hill forums on addressing children's unique health needs in health reform and removing bureaucratic hurdles to enrollment in Medicaid and CHIP. For those of you in town, please join us for the forums. The rest of you will have to wait for us to blog about them.
Tomorrow morning, CCF will release a new report at the "How Can Health Reform Help Kids?" forum sponsored by the Center for American Progress Fund and the Children's Partnership. The event will be held Friday, May 29 from10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. in the Capitol Visitors Center Room SVC 200/201. The event is free and open to the public, but you must RSVP in order to get through security. Here's the invitation.
Monday morning, CCF Senior Fellow Tricia Brooks will participate in a forum on "Effortless Enrollment" sponsored by the Roosevelt Institution. The event is being organized by Roosevelt Institution Senior Fellow Robert Nelb and should provide a lively discussion of enrollment issues that both Tricia and Robert have discussed on this blog. The Urban Institute, Brookings Institution and Heritage Foundation and others will join in the discussion. The forum is Monday, June 1 from 10:30 to 12 (noon) in the Capitol Visitor's Center Room SVC 202/203 but you must RSVP for security purposes. Here's the invitation.
Thanks for the invitation. These are both really important issues to bring to the attention of Congress as it considers health reform. Some people feel as though CHIPRA took care of kids but even if the states fulfill the expansions envisioned in CHIPRA, millions of kids would still be uninsured. Looking forward to reading your report. Can you give us a preview?