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  • Kaiser Family Foundation Launches All New Kff.org

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    Website Features New Search, Integration of Content by Key Topics, Design for Mobile Devices Website Advances Technical Capabilities of Popular WordPress Platform Menlo Park, CA – The Kaiser Family Foundation today announced the launch of an all new kff.org, the Foundation’s popular web destination for its health policy information. The new kff.org has been designed to fit the way people currently access and consume online information, and is built on an open-source platform that can…

  • Study Finds Recent Slowdown in Health Spending Growth Mostly Tied to the Economy

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    Growth Expected To Move Towards Historical Levels In Coming Years As the Economy Recovers A new Kaiser Family Foundation analysis of how the economy affects the nation’s health spending concludes that the record slow growth rate of recent years stems largely from economic factors beyond the health system, with the economy explaining 77 percent of the slowdown, and more rapid growth expected in coming years if the economy strengthens as expected. Based on statistical modeling…

  • Peter Taylor Elected to Kaiser Family Foundation Board of Trustees

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    The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation announced today that Peter Taylor has been elected to its Board of Trustees. Mr. Taylor is executive vice president and chief financial officer for the University of California system. Mr. Taylor brings rich and broad experience in finance, government and the non-profit world to the Foundation. Prior to joining the UC System he was in investment banking first for Lehman Brothers and then as a managing director at Barclays…

  • Poll Finds Bipartisan Public Support For Creating State Insurance Exchanges Despite Continuing Party Divisions Over the ACA

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    More Americans Back Than Oppose State Medicaid Expansions But, Like Many Governors, Public Splits Along Party Lines On The Federal Deficit, Public Wants Action But Still Resists Most Cuts and Sacrifices, Especially to Medicare A majority of Americans put the creation of state-based health insurance exchanges at the top of the priority list for health policy in their state this year, according to a survey released today by the Kaiser Family Foundation, the Robert Wood…

  • Many States Are Making Wide-Ranging Improvements To Medicaid Eligibility and Enrollment Systems to Prepare for the Affordable Care Act in 2014

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    New Survey Finds States Investing in Technology, Simplifying Enrollment Processes Washington, D.C. - Nearly all states are pressing forward with information technology and process improvements to develop faster, streamlined Medicaid enrollment systems as required under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) whether or not the state elects to expand Medicaid coverage under the law, according to a report released today by the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured. The 12th annual 50-state survey of…

  • AIDS Is a Deeply Personal As Well As Societal Concern for Young Americans of Color

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    Survey finds Black and Latino Youth “Very Concerned” about Impact of HIV on Themselves and Others Their Age; Black Youth Most Likely to be Offered and to Get a Test for HIV Menlo Park, Calif. - Nearly three times as many Black teens and young adults, and twice as many Latino youth, say HIV/AIDS is an issue that concerns them personally as compared to whites the same age, according to a new Kaiser Family Foundation survey of…

  • Report Finds State Costs of Implementing The Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid Expansion Would Be Modest Compared to Increases in Federal Funds, and Some States Would See Net Savings

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    Washington, D.C. – A new report released today by the Kaiser Family Foundation shows modest state costs for implementing the Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act compared to significant increases in federal funds, allowing some states to see net budget savings even as millions of low-income uninsured Americans gain health coverage. The new, updated analysis, conducted by John Holahan, Matt Buettgens, Caitlin Carroll and Stan Dorn at the Urban Institute for the Foundation's Commission…