Number: RL32135
Title: A Review of Medical Child Support: Background, Policy, and Issues
Authors: Carmen Solomon-Fears, Domestic Social Policy Division 
Abstract: Improving the establishment and enforcement of medical child support has been hampered to some extent by factors such as high health care costs, a decline in employer-provided health insurance coverage, an increase in the share of health insurance costs borne by employees, and the large number of uninsured children. This report provides a legislative history of medical support provisions in the child support enforcement program, describes current policy with respect to medical support, examines available data, and discusses some of the issues related to medical child support.
Pages: 33
Date: Updated November 3, 2003