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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 will consider 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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  • New Study Finds That Food Is the Top Product Seen Advertised by Children

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    As the fight against childhood obesity escalates, the issue of food advertising to children has come under increasing scrutiny. Policymakers in Congress, the Federal Trade Commission and agencies such as the Institute of Medicine have called for changes in the advertising landscape, and U.S. food and media industries are developing their own voluntary initiatives related to advertising food to children. To help inform this debate, the Kaiser Family Foundation released the largest study ever conducted…

  • The Role of Private Plans in Medicare

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    Enrollment in private health plans has grown sharply since the enactment of the Medicare Modernization Act in 2003, which created a Medicare drug benefit to be provided by private plans and created incentives for new private plans to enter the Medicare market. Today, virtually all Medicare beneficiaries--including those living in rural areas--have access to one or more private plans (known as Medicare Advantage plans), such as a Medicare HMO, PPO, special-needs plan or a private…

  • Health Care in New Orleans: Before and After Katrina

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    Kaiser Executive Vice President Diane Rowland testified before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations examining the continuing concerns and immediate needs in health care for New Orleans. Testimony (.pdf)

  • Study Shows Uninsured Receive Less Care and Experience Worse Outcomes

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    A new study commissioned by the Kaiser Family Foundation and authored by Dr. Jack Hadley of The Urban Institute and featured in the March 14, 2007, Journal of the American Medical Association theme issue on Access to Care documents that people who are uninsured receive less care and have worse outcomes following an accident or the onset of a new chronic condition than those with insurance. The study -- based on analysis of eight years…

  • Forums Explore Issues in Public Service Advertising

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    As the media environment evolves and viewing habits change, public service advertising campaigns face critical challenges to stay relevant and effective. To help understand the changes, the Kaiser Family Foundation hosts a series of forums to explore the issues and possible solutions. Public Service Advertising in Great Britain: Lessons for U.S. Public Interests The forum was held on Tuesday, February 27, 2007, in Washington, D.C. The Teen Media Juggling Act: The Implications of Media Multitasking…

  • New Study Shows Medicaid Spending Growth Can Be Sustained By Expected Increases in Government Revenues

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    A new study from the Foundation's Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, published in Health Affairs, concludes that expected growth in government revenues is likely to be large enough to sustain Medicaid spending increases over the next 40 years, while also allowing substantial real growth in spending for other public services. The study projects that Medicaid's share of national health spending will remain virtually unchanged until 2025 and then increase slowly by 2045. News…

  • Public Service Advertising in Great Britain: Lessons for U.S. Public Interests

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    As part of an ongoing series of forums on issues related to public education campaigns, the Kaiser Family Foundation hosted an event featuring Alan Bishop, CEO of the United Kingdom's Central Office of Information, the government organization that implements and coordinates all government public education campaigns, making it the third largest advertiser in the country. Deborah Taylor Tate, member, Federal Communications Commission, gave opening remarks and Vicky Rideout, who directs Kaiser's Program for the Study…

  • Health Care: Squeezing The Middle Class With More Costs and Less Coverage

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    Health Care: Squeezing The Middle Class With More Costs and Less Coverage Diane Rowland, executive vice president of the Foundation and executive director of the Foundation's Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, testified to the U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means about the economic challenges of rising health care costs and growing gaps in health coverage facing middle class families. Testimony (.pdf)

  • The Teen Media Juggling Act: The Implications of Media Multitasking Among American Youth

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    In recent years, the issue of media multitasking has sparked a broad discussion about the potential impact on children and youth and has raised concerns among non-profits about how best to engage young people with social marketing campaigns. To help advance understanding about the issues that surround media multitasking, the Kaiser Family Foundation hosted a forum. Forum participants included executives from MTV and eMarketer, a leading market research firm, along with one of the nation’s…

  • Forum on The “Reality” of Health: Reality Television and the Public Health

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    Forum on The "Reality" of Health: Reality Television and the Public Health The Kaiser Family Foundation hosted a forum to examine the implications of reality TV serving as a health information resource. The forum, The "Reality" of Health: Reality Television and the Public Health, featured a senior executive from Discovery Health Channel and FitTV, the host of the first season of reality TV's "Honey We're Killing the Kids," and leading researchers and authors on youth…