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This brief compares the Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program provisions in the House Leadership health reform bill,  H.R. 3962, Affordable Health Care for America Act, introduced on October 29, 2009 to current law.

This interactive side-by-side compares the leading comprehensive health reform proposals across a number of key characteristics and plan components.  Proposals for moving toward universal coverage that have been put forward by the president and  members of congress are included.

This brief describes the major Medicare provisions relating to benefit changes, Medicare Advantage, the Medicare prescription drug benefit, physician and other provider payment reforms, and other health system reforms in the Senate Finance proposal and the House Tri-Committee bill.

This interactive tool illustrates the premiums and subsidies for those who purchase coverage on their own through an exchange or gateway because they don’t get health insurance through their employers, Medicare or Medicaid, as provided under the key Congressional reform plans.

This issue brief considers questions associated with the establishment of a new entity to set Medicare payment policy and the implications for beneficiaries, other stakeholders, and program spending.  The idea is being considered as part of health form as a way to improve Medicare's efficiency and control health care costs.

This Today's Topics In Health Disparities webcast examines how ready the health care system is for the influx of newly covered individuals that health reform aims to deliver. The panelists discuss provisions in the bills that address the need for increasing the health care workforce and maintaining the safety net, as well as potential gaps in the legislation, and the possible impact on racial and ethnic health disparities.

This issue brief highlights some of the potential benefits and costs to the states associated with a significant expansion of Medicaid of the sort proposed in leading health reform bills in Congress.

This issue brief written by Kaiser staff examines the potential impact and limitations of new temporary subsidies created by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to help people maintain their employer-sponsored health coverage after a layoff.

This fact sheet discusses the status of Medicaid and state budgets in light of the continuing recession and the federal fiscal relief provided to state Medicaid programs through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).

The Alliance for Health Reform and the Kaiser Family Foundation co-sponsored this briefing to have an expanded panel of prominent experts answer questions about how public support for health reform waxes and wanes depending, not only on what’s being proposed in the reform proposals, but also on who asks the question and how it is asked.