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Missouri Application for the State Children’s Health Insurance Program Effective Date: 09/01/2007 Approval Date: 09/28/2007

Prior Approval Date: - 6A- estimates from the CPS and the MHCIA surveys; its report is available at http://www.mffh.org/ShowMe8-final.pdf.  The Census Bureau's annual Current Population Survey (CPS), specifically the Annual Social and Economic Supplement (ASEC), also provides information about health insurance status based on a survey of approximately 78,000 households nationally. For 2006, the CPS estimate for the rate of uninsured children in households with income under 200% of the federal poverty level was 33.4 percent (+/– 5.9%). Because of the relatively small sample size, the calculated rates of uninsured children by sex, race, age, etc. have such large confidence intervals that the individual point estimates are essentially without meaning and may prove highly misleading. For additional information, see http://www.census.gov/cps/. Given the paucity of data, we are unable to present the rate of uninsured children in Missouri stratified by sex, race, age, etc. (because the width of the confidence intervals would make any point estimates essentially meaningless). With respect to the changes in the health insurance status of Missouri children since the SCHIP program went into effect in 1999, we evaluated the Census Bureau’s historical CPS data:  Looking at the most recent data, the rate of uninsured children in Missouri appears to have fluctuated somewhat over the past three years. The 2005 rate of 7.6 percent is down from the 2004 rate of 8.5 percent but still up from the 2003 rate of 7.3 percent. The rate continues to be about one-third less than the national average of 11.2 percent (see Figures 1 and 2).

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Missouri Application for the State Children’s Health Insurance Program Effective Date: 09/01/2007 Approval Date: 09/28/2007

Prior Approval Date: - 6A- estimates from the CPS and the MHCIA surveys; its report is available at http://www.mffh.org/ShowMe8-final.pdf.  The Census Bureau's annual Current Population Survey (CPS), specifically the Annual Social and Economic Supplement (ASEC), also provides information about health insurance status based on a survey of approximately 78,000 households nationally. For 2006, the CPS estimate for the rate of uninsured children in households with income under 200% of the federal poverty level was 33.4 percent (+/– 5.9%). Because of the relatively small sample size, the calculated rates of uninsured children by sex, race, age, etc. have such large confidence intervals that the individual point estimates are essentially without meaning and may prove highly misleading. For additional information, see http://www.census.gov/cps/. Given the paucity of data, we are unable to present the rate of uninsured children in Missouri stratified by sex, race, age, etc. (because the width of the confidence intervals would make any point estimates essentially meaningless). With respect to the changes in the health insurance status of Missouri children since the SCHIP program went into effect in 1999, we evaluated the Census Bureau’s historical CPS data:  Looking at the most recent data, the rate of uninsured children in Missouri appears to have fluctuated somewhat over the past three years. The 2005 rate of 7.6 percent is down from the 2004 rate of 8.5 percent but still up from the 2003 rate of 7.3 percent. The rate continues to be about one-third less than the national average of 11.2 percent (see Figures 1 and 2).