U.S. State Health Policy, Public Opinion & Research

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Statehealthfacts.org
This redesigned and updated website provides the latest state-level data on demographics, health, and health policy, including health coverage, access, financing, and state legislation and budgets.

State Variation and Health Reform: A Chartbook
This chartbook and related interactive tables and maps present a variety of state-level economic and health care data that help illustrate the disparate impacts of potential health reform on the 50 states and the District of Columbia.

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State Medicaid Coverage of Family Planning Services: Summary of State Survey Findings -- November 2009
This report presents state-by-state policies on coverage of key areas in reproductive health for low-income women, including contraception, preconception care, screenings for sexually transmitted diseases and coverage within special state Medicaid family planning programs.

Access to Abortion Coverage and Health Reform -- November 2009
This issue brief discusses the treatment of coverage for abortion services under the major health reform bills and explores the possible impact of the House-passed legislation on public and private coverage for abortion services.

Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program Provisions in the House Leadership Bill: Affordable Health Care for America Act (HR 3962) -- November 2009
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, to current law.

Putting Children on the Express Lane to Health Insurance: Streamlining Enrollment and Renewal of Children in Medicaid and CHIP Through Express Lane Eligibility -- October 2009

Putting Children on the Express Lane to Health Insurance: Streamlining Enrollment and Renewal of Children in Medicaid and CHIP Through Express Lane Eligibility

Health Reform Issues: State Financing and Medicaid -- October 2009
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.

Medicaid and State Budgets: From Crunch to Cliff -- October 2009

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).

Pulling it Together: The "Third School" for Controlling Health Care Costs? -- October 2009
In his latest column, the Kaiser Family Foundation's President and CEO explores the rise to prominence of the "Systems Reformers" and their place in efforts to control health care costs.

Health Insurance Coverage in America, 2008 -- October 2009
This online chartbook provides a comprehensive profile of the uninsured and health insurance coverage overall, including downloadable PowerPoint figures and Excel tables for the nonelderly population, children, nonelderly adults and working adults.

The Uninsured: A Primer -- October 2009

Updated with 2008 data, this primer reviews the basic profile of the uninsured population, how they receive care, the latest trends in health insurance coverage, key issues in increasing coverage and basic statistics on the uninsured. More detailed breakdowns are available in supplemental data tables.

State Fiscal Conditions & Medicaid -- September 2009

This fact sheet summarizes the relationship of Medicaid with state budgets and discusses the current fiscal situation in the states and how it is affecting Medicaid programs.

This report presents state-by-state policies on coverage of key areas in reproductive health for low-income women, including contraception, preconception care, screenings for sexually transmitted diseases and coverage within special state Medicaid family planning programs.

This issue brief discusses the treatment of coverage for abortion services under the major health reform bills and explores the possible impact of the House-passed legislation on public and private coverage for abortion services.

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, to current law.

Putting Children on the Express Lane to Health Insurance: Streamlining Enrollment and Renewal of Children in Medicaid and CHIP Through Express Lane Eligibility

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 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).

In his latest column, the Kaiser Family Foundation's President and CEO explores the rise to prominence of the "Systems Reformers" and their place in efforts to control health care costs.

This online chartbook provides a comprehensive profile of the uninsured and health insurance coverage overall, including downloadable PowerPoint figures and Excel tables for the nonelderly population, children, nonelderly adults and working adults.

Updated with 2008 data, this primer reviews the basic profile of the uninsured population, how they receive care, the latest trends in health insurance coverage, key issues in increasing coverage and basic statistics on the uninsured. More detailed breakdowns are available in supplemental data tables.

This fact sheet summarizes the relationship of Medicaid with state budgets and discusses the current fiscal situation in the states and how it is affecting Medicaid programs.

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State Health Policy

States play a major role in the delivery and financing of health care and public health in the United States. Insurance regulation, Medicaid policy and financing of public health services, and many reproductive health policies are under state jurisdiction. States operate their own Medicaid programs within broad federal guidelines, the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) for low-income children, and in some cases also offer additional health care programs such as discount drug programs for seniors.

In recent years, states have been facing major budget shortfalls. These fiscal constraints have broad implications for many aspects of the health care financing and delivery system. Recent reductions to Medicaid coverage and benefit packages have been a reversal from the programs expansions of the late 1990s when states experienced unprecedented budget surpluses. State legislatures are also playing an increasingly important role in health policy, enacting legislation on issues that have been controversial and slow-moving at the national level, such as patients’ rights and reproductive health.

The Foundation’s work in state health policy cuts across nearly all of the Foundation’s policy priority areas. The Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured analyzes state Medicaid and SCHIP programs, and tracks changes states are making to their Medicaid programs as a result of their deteriorating fiscal conditions. The California Health Policy Program provides information and analysis about health policy issues and key trends in the nation's largest and most diverse state. Nearly all of the Foundation’s priority areas collect and conduct analyses on state-based policies. Much of this information is presented in State Health Facts Online, a web-based interactive database, including demographic information, health insurance coverage rates, Medicaid and Medicare enrollment, spending and policies, private insurance mandates, health care financing and delivery information, as well as disease and mortality statistics.