Sarah Barr is a web reporter for Kaiser Health News. Before joining KHN, Sarah wrote for legal and business publisher BNA, where she covered the health reform debate, Medicaid, and the Children's Health Insurance Program. Sarah is at work on a master's degree in nonfiction writing at Johns Hopkins University and graduated with a B.A. in English from St. Mary's College of Maryland.
Program supporters say the ban, which is part of the recently passed omnibus spending bill to fund the federal government until the end of the current fiscal year, will undermine public health.
Dec 21, 2011
At least six states are taking advantage of a change mandated by the 2010 health law to allow their low-income workers to enroll kids in the Children's Health Insurance Programs.
Nov 07, 2011