Report and other materials from the Jan. 18, 2012 public briefing on KCMU's annual 50-state survey of Medicaid and CHIP Eligibility and Enrollment Policies.
On Thursday, December 8, the Kaiser Family Foundation's Media Fellowship Program, in conjunction with the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University and GlobalPost, held an evening discussion on global health decision making and news coverage in Cambridge, MA. The keynote presentation by Dr. Rajiv Shah, Administrator for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), focused on ways to impact childrens' health, global health and poverty, and the future of international aid and public engagement in global issues.
This Kaiser Family Foundation and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services briefing will explore the Department's role in global health and its Global Health Strategy. The event will feature opening remarks by HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
On Wednesday Dec. 7, 2011 the Kaiser Family Foundation held a live interactive webcast to discuss trends in state health care expenditures and the implications for national and state efforts to constrain health care costs. The webcast examined new state-by-state estimates of public and private health spending from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
This kaiserEDU.org tutorial summarizes major issues in reproductive health care policy.
This November 9, 2011 webcast features an expert panel discussing the outcomes of the Cannes G-20 Summit and implications for global health. It is part of the Foundation's "U.S. Global Health Policy: In Focus" series.
Almost 50 million Americans lacked health insurance in 2010 -- about a million more than in 2009. Who are the uninsured? Why do so many Americans lack coverage? What are the trends in coverage among different segments of the population? What do these trends means for the health care system and the costs of care? This briefing, co-sponsored by the Alliance for Health Reform and the Kaiser Family Foundation, addressed these questions and more.
This briefing, co-sponsored by the Alliance for Health Reform, the Kaiser Family Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and The SCAN Foundation, featured panelists discussing which deficit-reduction proposals affecting Medicaid might receive serious consideration by the congressional “super committee,” as well as what kind of impact such changes would have on Medicaid enrollees, providers and state Medicaid programs.
Proposals to generate Medicare savings abound, from the various commissions recommending change, members of Congress and others. Which proposals will, or should, receive serious consideration by the congressional super committee in its quest to find $1.2 trillion or more in savings by its November 23 deadline? What impact would these changes have on beneficiaries, providers and insurers? Would stakeholders prefer the automatic, but capped, Medicare reductions in the sequester rather than any recommendations on Medicare that the super committee might make? This briefing addressed these questions and more. Cosponsored by the Alliance for Health Reform, The Commonwealth Fund, the Kaiser Family Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and The SCAN Foundation.
The Affordable Care Act creates a process for states and the Department of Health and Human Services to review “unreasonable” premium increases and provide information to consumers about the process. A briefing held by the Foundation in September 2011 addressed how these new rules might work and what the implications may be for the growth in health insurance premiums and the underlying cost of health care.
