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How Unaffordable is Health Care and What Can We Do About It?

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During this Health Wonk Shop, panelists considered affordability from a variety of perspectives, including how to define affordability and the question of affordability for whom, how to measure it, and what can be done to address affordability and the underlying cost of health care.

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  • A Town Hall Forum with Ambassador Deborah L. Birx

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    The Kaiser Family Foundation hosted a town hall forum with Ambassador Deborah L. Birx, M.D. the new U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, in which she shared her vision for the next phase of the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) in supporting efforts to achieve an AIDS-free generation.

  • Webinar for Journalists: Results from Survey of People Who Bought Their Own Health Insurance Under the ACA

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    The Kaiser Family Foundation held a reporters-only webinar at 11 a.m. ET on Thursday, June 19 to release its new Survey of Non-Group Health Insurance Enrollees, providing a first look at people buying their own health insurance following the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. The first in a series, the new survey captures the previous insurance status of marketplace enrollees and the self-reported health status of enrollees in ACA-compliant coverage purchased on or off…

  • TB Silent Killer: FRONTLINE Documentary and Panel Discussion

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    The Kaiser Family Foundation convened a public forum to take stock of the global health challenge presented by TB, to examine the limitations and challenges of current treatment options, their limitations and challenges, and to discuss the search for new and better TB drugs and other tools. The event began with a screening of a short segment of a new FRONTLINE television documentary, TB Silent Killer, which focuses on the Southern African nation of Swaziland,…

  • CANCELLED: March 17 Event: U.S. Global Health Diplomacy and the Role of Ambassadors

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    The Kaiser Family Foundation is hosting a panel discussion of U.S. Ambassadors to look at how diplomacy intersects with global health, how the U.S. government's new focus on global health diplomacy is reshaping the work of U.S. Ambassadors with partner countries, and how the new Office of Global Health Diplomacy relates to and coordinates with other parts of the U.S. government's global health architecture and foreign policy.

  • The Supreme Court and Contraceptive Coverage: Legal and Policy Implications – Briefing and Panel Discussion

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    On Tuesday, March 11, two weeks before the hearings, Kaiser Family Foundation hosted a public briefing and panel discussion to discuss two upcoming Supreme Court cases brought forth by for-profit corporations that challenge the Affordable Care Act's requirement to cover contraceptives, and the implications these rulings have for the ACA, corporate and individual religious protections, and civil rights.