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Interactive Quiz Tests Knowledge About The Uninsured Population and the Consequences of Not Having Health Coverage.
Record numbers of Americans lack health coverage, and the substantial growth of the uninsured population in recent decades was a primary impetus for passage of the Affordable Care Act. Take our new Uninsured Quiz to gauge how much you know about the uninsured population and the consequences of not having health coverage.

Changes in Health Insurance Coverage in the Great Recession, 2007-2010
This issue brief examines changes in health insurance coverage over the last decade, with a focus on how changes in the economy, particularly during the "Great Recession" of 2007 to 2009, have affected coverage and the number of uninsured. The number of uninsured in the United States increased by nearly 13 million between 2000 and 2010.

Key Resources on Health Coverage and the Uninsured
Key The Foundation has several resources to help explain the size and characteristics of the uninsured population in the U.S., including The Uninsured: A Primer, the fact sheet The Uninsured and the Difference Health Insurance Makes, the issue brief Five Facts on the Uninsured, and the State Health Facts web page on health coverage and the uninsured.

Summary of Coverage Provisions in the Health Reform Law
This summary describes the health coverage provisions contained in the final version of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act signed into law in March 2010, including the individual mandate requirements, expansion of public programs, health insurance exchanges, changes to private insurance, employer requirements and cost and coverage estimates.

Connecting Eligible Immigrant Families to Health Coverage and Care: Key Lessons from Outreach and Enrollment Workers
This report examines the role of Medicaid and CHIP for immigrant families; key barriers eligible, lawfully residing immigrant families face to enrolling in coverage and accessing care; successful strategies to overcome these barriers; and considerations for implementing the coverage expansions under health reform.

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The Massachusetts Health Care Landscape -- May 2012

Massachusetts Health Care Reform: Six Years Later -- May 2012

How is the Affordable Care Act Leading to Changes in Medicaid Today? State Responses to Five New Options -- May 2012

Health Care Use and Chronic Conditions Among Childless Adult Medicaid Enrollees in Arizona -- May 2012

Enrollment-Driven Expenditure Growth: Medicaid Spending during the Economic Downturn, FFY2007-2010 -- May 2012

Understanding The Medicaid And CHIP Maintenance of Eligibility Requirements -- May 2012

Five Key Questions About Medicaid And Its Role in State/Federal Budgets and Health Reform - Fact Sheet -- May 2012

5 Key Questions and Answers About Medicaid -- May 2012

Uninsured Quiz -- April 2012

Kaiser Health Tracking Poll -- April 2012 -- April 2012

This fact sheet summarizes the Massachusetts health care landscape, including data on demographics, population health, the uninsured and the state Medicaid program.

This brief examines Massachusetts' experience with coverage and access to care since enacting comprehensive state health reform in 2006. It also compares the state's reform with the national reforms in the Affordable Care Act.

This policy brief examines how states in every region have responded to five key opportunities available under the health reform law to help them prepare for the significant expansion of Medicaid in 2014.

Based on 2007 Medicaid claims data in Arizona, this report provides an analysis of health care utilization and health conditions for childless adults and compares them with parents and adults with disabilities. Understanding the health care use and needs of low-income childless adults can help inform other states’ efforts to care for these adults under the Medicaid expansion in 2014.

This report presents data on changes in Medicaid's enrollment and spending between federal fiscal year 2007 and federal fiscal year 2010, a period which includes the worst economic downturn in the United States since the Great Depression of the 1930s.

This fact sheet examines the provisions in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) that require states to maintain eligibility and enrollment standards for Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program. These maintenance of eligibility (MOE) provisions were designed to keep Medicaid and CHIP coverage stable until coverage expands under the health reform law.

This fact sheet highlights key issues about Medicaid, including the structure, financing and purpose of the program, its role for low-income beneficiaries, its share of the federal budget and state budgets, and the significant implications of the coverage expansion under the Affordable Care Act.

This chartpack addresses five key questions about Medicaid.

Take the Uninsured Quiz to gauge how much you know about the uninsured population and the consequences of not having health coverage.

The April Health Tracking Poll gauged Americans' opinions of the Affordable Care Act in the wake of the Supreme Court oral arguments in the legal challenges to the health reform law in March.

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