How Health Care Reform Affects CYSHCN

The Catalyst Center has produced three new briefs outlining elements necessary for CYSHCN in health care reform:

The Essential Components of Health Care Reform for CSHCN identifies the three components of optimal coverage for CYSHCN (adequate, affordable and continuous) identified provides specific examples to help readers identify whether proposed coverage meets these three criteria.

What do Children with Special Health Care Needs Require from Health Care Reform? identifies the three main components of optimal healthcare coverage for CYSHCN: coverage must be adequate, affordable and continuous.

Health Care Reform and Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs: Coverage Is Not Enough provides more specific information on the implications of underinsurance for CYSHCN and their families. This brief identifies the impact of thin benefit packages and offers specific policy suggestions to alleviate underinsurance.