This issue brief examines the early successes and challenges of the Money Follows the Person Demonstration, a Medicaid initiative enacted into law in 2006 that gives states enhanced federal support to balance their Medicaid long-term care programs by providing more services in the community and fewer in institutional settings.

This brief explains the role of Medicaid in the health care system and addresses some key questions and issues related to Medicaid that could emerge in the context of current health reform discussions.

This brief, the fourth in a series, examines important changes to CHIP's financing structure under the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009.

This analysis, based on 2007 data, examines how health coverage and access to care for non-elderly adults vary based on immigrants' length of time in the U.S. and between immigrants, second generation Americans and third generation and higher Americans. It also identifies the primary factors contributing to lower health coverage rates and greater access barriers among immigrants.

This policy brief examines the characteristics and insurance coverage of low-income adults under age 65, a group numbering more than 50 million people. They are more likely to be in poor health than other Americans and are the least likely to have health insurance.

This policy brief and related congressional testimony examine the fundamentals of private long-term care insurance, including how consumers buy policies, how much policies cost and how they work, and what regulations exist to protect consumers. They also discuss the challenges of possibly enlarging the role of private long-term care insurance in financing long-term care.

This policy brief examines the fundamentals of private long-term care insurance, including how consumers buy policies, how much policies cost and how they work, and what regulations exist to protect consumers. It also discuss the challenges of possibly enlarging the role of private long-term care insurance in financing long-term care

At a June 3 hearing of the Senate Special Committee on Aging, Diane Rowland, Executive Vice President of the Kaiser Family Foundation and Executive Director on the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, testified on the key challenges to providing a larger role for private long-term care insurance in financing long-term care for the elderly and people with disabilities.

With the problem of the uninsured continuing to grow, states have taken the lead in developing proposals to reform of their health care systems with the goal of significantly increasing the number of people with health coverage.  An interactive map and related summaries of plans track which states have enacted or are planning comprehensive initiatives to cover their uninsured population.

These related research papers, released at a public briefing, examine the policy opportunities for expanding Medicaid to cover more low-income and high-need people in ways that would enable the program to serve as a platform for larger national health reform efforts.