Losing Health Insurance: The Unintended Consequences of Welfare Reform


 

Publication Date: May 1999

Publisher: Families USA

Author(s): Rachel Klein

Research Area: Health

Type: Report

Abstract:

A 45-page report showing that 675,000 people--most of them children--lost Medicaid coverage and became uninsured as a result of welfare reform. The report explains that this troubling trend is likely to accelerate in the years ahead.