A Healthy Foundation for All Utah Kids to Thrive
Children and families need access to affordable, quality, health care. Health insurance provides a critical foundation for kids, so they can stay healthy, manage health conditions or problems, perform better in school, be active and thrive. ALL Utah kids should have access to health insurance.
Unfortunately, too many Utah children do not have access to health coverage. Utah has:
- One of the highest rates of uninsured children in the nation, 61,000 children (6%).
- One of the highest rate of uninsured Hispanic/Latino children in the nation.
- One of the highest rate of children currently eligible for health insurance, but not enrolled.
How do we do we reach 100% Coverage and care for Utah kids?
To address these problems, Voices for Utah Children works to strengthen health care access for families. Utah parents are working hard every day to make sure their kids are healthy, we need to make sure our healthcare policies are working for them. We focuses on four pillars of policies to ensure that we reach 100% kids covered in Utah. Additionally, we advocate to protect the integrity of the foundational coverage that CHIP and Medicaid provides by showing the positive impact the programs have on children. Together we can help all kids be healthy and reach their full potential.
Join our 100% Kids Coverage Coalition to ensure all children in Utah have access to coverage and care! Click here to join our campaign today.
- Cover All Kids
- All Year Round Coverage
- Connect Kids To Coverage
- Protect Parent Coverage
Great News!
Cover All Kids 2024 Update:
No child should be denied care, but thousands of children are unable to get health coverage or forced to delay or forgo treatment because they lack coverage. We want to make sure all children can have the coverage and care they need this year. This year, thanks to the passage of SB217: Children's Health Coverage Amendments more immigrant children will qualify for coverage. We are ecstatic to monitor and support the implementation of Utah's new State CHIP Program!
All Year Round Coverage 2024 Update:
Currently, only children on CHIP had access to year round coverage. Lack of year round coverage has meant thousands of Utah children possibly losing their health insurance at some point in the year due to red-tape, administrative error, or changing family circumstances. Thanks to changes from the federal government, all children on Medicaid will have access to year round coverage (12-month continuous eligibility) starting January 2024!
